How Do We Make Lean Stick? Four Essentials for Lasting Change

A common question regarding lean transformation is: How do we make lean stick? How do we instill lean into our culture and make it part of our company DNA, engaging the whole workforce in continually improving processes for the betterment of our customers, employees and society at large?

For any change, especially one as challenging as a lean transformation, it’s about changing behaviors. How do we get a workforce engaged in the behaviors that will drive our lean strategy? 

Rizzardo believe the key is through integrating the following four components of change. Individually, their power is minimal, but together, they provide the focused energy to initiate the actions required for the development of a lean culture of continuous improvement.

Principles

Behaviors

Motivators

Enablers

These components of change are not independent units. If we remove any one of them, their collective energy is depleted. Rather, they overlap, are interdependent and gain their strength by how effectively we integrate each component with the others. They then become catalysts for change and action.

Let’s take a brief look at each and see how they all tie together to help us drive the behavior changes of a lean transformation.

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