1. Lean Thinking & Leadership
Anand Subramaniam

2. Lean Thinking
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3. Lean Thinking = Common Sense
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4. Traditional vs. Lean Thinking
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5. From Complexity to Simplicity
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Traditional Thinking that
Drives Complexity
Lean Thinking Drives Continuous
Improvement

6. Lean Thinking
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7. Toyota Way – 14 Management Principles
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8. Lean
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9. Organisation - Firefighting Vs. Lean
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10. Is this Lean? Why?
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Quality: How to improve it?
Cost: How to reduce it?
Delivery: How to ensure it?
Talent: How to develop them?

11. What is Lean?
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Extra Capacity
Before
After

12. Speed & Process Cycle Efficiency
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13. Which one is value add?
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14. Lean Definition
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15. Lean Definition
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"A systematic approach to identifying and
eliminating waste (non-value-added activities)
through continuous improvement by flowing the
product through flow processes based on a
signal from the customer."

16. Companies who are “Lean Leaders”
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“Lean is a strategy for operation
excellence based on clearly
defined values to engage people in
continuously improving safety, quality, cost,
productivity and morale."

17. Lean is not…
▪ An Acronym
▪ Easy - It is simple, but
“Easy” does not exist
▪ About Laying Off Staff -
Staff may need to do
different work
▪ A Quick Fix
▪ Newest / Latest “Fix All
Problems”
▪ An Organisation Chart
Shuffle - Changing
reporting lines on the org
chart does not improve
process
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18. Opportunities & Countermeasures
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19. Operational Excellence
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20. Lean & Operational Excellence
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Operational Excellence

21. Lean Journey
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22. Lean Journey
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23. Lean Leadership
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24. 80% Behaviour Change & 20% Tools
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25. Traditional vs. Lean Leadership
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26. Leadership – Behaviour & Actions
Behaviour
▪ Teach & Engage Teams
▪ Respect people
▪ Be process focused
▪ Support & recognize
▪ Guide & lead towards objectives
▪ Commit to standards
▪ Support the change process
▪ Lead by example
▪ Understand long term vision &
principles
Actions
▪ Continuously ask for improvements
▪ Challenge the status quo
▪ Inspire people & motivate creativity
▪ Praise & recognize good work
▪ Ask 5 x Why
▪ Always practice Go-Look-See
▪ Do what your preach – walk the talk
▪ Be an effective & consistent in
communicating
▪ Don’t accept deviation from agreed
standards
▪ Ask what went wrong & not who
made the mistake
▪ Take the right containment actions &
control their effectiveness
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27. Lean Iceberg
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28. Lean House
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29. Lean House
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30. Lean Pillars
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31. Lean Pillars
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Core
Values

32. Lean Culture
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33. Dream House
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34. Starts by building a solid foundation
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35. .... then it can stand the test of time
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36. Lean Culture Foundation
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37. Respect & Team Work
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38. Empowerment
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39. Respect for People
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40. 7 Practices – To Lead With Respect
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41. Gemba
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42. Which one is not the Gemba?
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43. Sensei & Deshi
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Sensei
(Teacher)
Deshi
(Student)

44. @ the Gemba
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45. Problem Solving & Reflection
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46. Questions to Ask @ the Gemba
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Good Luck
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