Many companies have ‘done’ Lean but how lean are they?  Tom talks about his experience of how ‘Real’ Lean has been progressively replaced with a light version based almost totally on waste elimination.

It is often packaged into generic programmes with no particular focus on making value flow:

• Focus is on the deployment of tools and not on improvement of performance.
• Owned by internal consultants not BU managers.
• Not linked to any system of goal deployment.