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Make culture become an asset in your Lean journey
Succeed in Multicultural Environment
Get it Right First Time!
Deploy Lean strategies anywhere around the globe
Develop new competencies
Promote Lean Culture
Embrace a new perspective
Discover A Concept
A systemic approach to Lean deployment strategies across cultures.
10 DIMENSIONS
Give meaning
Understand Lean’s frame of reference and philosophy.
3 BEHAVIORS
Back to basics
Adopt Lean culture & adapt Lean deployment strategies.
3 PRINCIPLES
Ensure alignement
Align corporate’s objectives and values to Lean principles.
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With The Lean Cultural Compass
Thanks to the first intercultural tool dedicated to Lean!
SEE
The delta’s in term of cultural bias
think
Adapt strategies and leverage resources
ACT
Create local solutions
LC² Indicators
Allocate your ressources wisely
with the Lean Cultural Compass.
Cultural Dimensions
Discover Lean’s cultural reading grid through reliable proven keys.
Relation with the Local Culture
Assess & understand how Lean is perceived by those who are implementing it.
Cultural Levers & pitfalls
Identify cultural pitfalls and the levers upon which you can build your Lean system.
Your Essential Tool to Success
Identify your cultural levers in just a click
Learn & Live the Philosophy
Embrace a new perspective on Lean.
Insights
Lean & Toyota
Did you ever wonder why Toyota Production System (TPS) – later popularized by the name of Lean – is one of the most benchmarked business improvement strategies in modern industry?
Bias
“If you are going to do TPS (Toyota Production System), you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things” Taiichi Ohno
Lean & Japan
There is no Japanese “cultural drive” towards Lean. Lean methodologies are not more present in Japan than elsewhere. This having been said, Lean philosophy has been shaped through an …
Systemic and analytical approaches
While Frederick Winslow Taylor – the founder of Taylorism – separated planning from production, Taiichi Ohno – the founder of Lean – united them.
Our services
Found out about our workshops, trainings and certifications.
Intercultural Communication
Although many values are common to every culture, their prevalence over each other may vary. Culture mentally conditions individuals. Cultural dimensions are generalizations that help us identify and define a list of expected and accepted behaviors within a culture.
Developing intercultural skills
While multicultural groups have a higher performance potential than monocultural teams, they proportionally have a higher risk of failure. To foster the intercultural skills, organisations must identify the elements driving performance and those slowing it down.
Lean deployment in multicultural environment
Lean has become an accelerated springboard for multinational companies who aim to achieve Operational Excellence and gain a greater competitive advantage. However,a known perception is that there is often an inability of organizations to create a right…
