1/ "Lean" is rarely about efficiency. It is usu code for cost cutting by increasing invisible risk without lowering visible functionality
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2/ So you get the *appearance* of efficiency: the same value for "less" because you've made cuts in invisible/rarely visible functions
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3/ Example 1: UK floods and flood-related spending cuts. Example 2: SoCal gas leak: laweekly.com/news/what-went
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Only true for lean projects (like six sigma) locally. Look system-wide and you realize you just move risk around to lower cost
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@AnkurRSharma Talk to experienced lean people and they'll admit it. Few will openly say the efficiency-industrial complex is a theater
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@AnkurRSharma that's easy. Look where actual technical breakthroughs happen and cascade through the system.
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really disagree, maybe you just mean efficiency, not Lean (Toyota way, pull systems, less inventory, defect prevention etc.)
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my reference point is expanded notion of lean as in post-Motorola lean-six-sigma culture that spread through industry
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learnt this when the original Lean Manufacturing was in vogue back in 2001-2002. Value Addition and Value Engineering were the mantras
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