To Lean or not to Lean
- Subbarao Chaganty, Senior Consultant, Infosys
Paying my sincere respects to William Shakespeare for his most famous phrase “To be or not to be” from Hamlet, I took the liberty of reconstructing this phrase to lead us to an important topic.
I’ve come across quality and process improvement methodologies like Six Sigma, CMMI and so on, where you would have to dig deeper to better understand the philosophy and the methodology of the framework. However when we come to Lean it’s as self explanatory as it can get for a powerful methodology that it represents. Kudos also to Toyota for developing and promoting this philosophy in their manufacturing plants to become one of the most popular auto-makers in the world and on top of that keeping it as simple as possible.
