Lean Solutions: Basic Principles

Lean Thinking aims at eliminating waste for both producers and consumers of products and service. Here are its basic principles

• Provide value actually desired by the customer.
• Identify the value stream for each product. This is the sequence of actions (the process) needed to to bring a good or service from concept to launch and from an order into the hands of the customer
• Line up the remaining steps in a continuous flow
• Let customer pull value from the firm
• Start over from the beginning in an endless search for perfection, the happy situation of perfect value provided with zero waste