04/17/14 by Ankit Patel | lean culture, lean fail, Uncategorized |

In the last two series of “Why Lean is So Difficult” we introduced the concepts of why it is difficult and took a deeper dive into one of the reasons – Strategy.  Now we’ll take a look at the second factor on why Lean efforts fail often and that’s the momentum…

04/02/14 by Ankit Patel | lean, lean culture, lean fail, lean manufacutring, lean medical clinic, Strengths based Lean, Uncategorized |

“Going Lean” can be very exciting for a company because of the results it can produce.  An engaged workforce, reduced costs, faster delivery times, better quality, and a competitive advantage in the market place to name a few.  You hear companies like Toyota using it to compete in a very…

10/12/09 by Ankit Patel | lean, lean culture, lean fail, lean manufacutring, lean transformation, the lean way consulting |

Today’s title was the phrase that was told to me when I first started in my lean journey during a transformation process. When going through a lean implementation there are two aspects we look at: 1) Technical and tangible aspectsa. Design elementsb. Schedulingc. Staffingd. And other tools 2) Non-technical and…

10/08/09 by Ankit Patel | company culture, lean, lean culture, lean fail, lean manufacutring, lean transformation, the lean way consulting |

Thank you to www.shmula.com for the photo and an interesting article why lean transformations fail. Thank you also to Henry Ford for the title of today’s blog post. The picture tells a very interesting story. 70% of transformations fail because of ourselves. We are are worst enemies when it comes…