Typical Lean Goals (not just shedding people)

Completely satisfy customers by

engineering products that solve their usage problems engineering and manufacturing defect free products on time delivery offering a full product range at market price and renewing models frequently

Lower costs by

continuously value engineering of the product eliminating all waste in company activities assembling different products in the same production units designing products fit for lean manufacturing

The 4 Ps of The Toyota Way

Eliminating Waste

Which one describes your Company?

Vertical
Focus - Production Budgets, SOPs Make the numbers Leaders separated from the work Peoples ingenuity used to beat the system Supervisors manage people Horizontal Focus - Process Purpose Make problems visible Leaders focusing on the work Peoples ingenuity used to improve the system Supervisors work with the people to solve problems