Lean Horizons Consulting will be celebrating it’s 10th year of consulting in May, 2011! Lean Horizons started in 2001 with just four consultants, who were led by the company’s President and CEO, Mark DeLuzio. Today Lean Horizons is a global company serving markets in North and South America, Europe, China, and India. One of our […]
How Do You Apply Lean To Administrative Processes?
Are your Lean efforts primarily shop floor focused? The late Dr. Deming stated that most customers do not leave an organization because of bad products; rather they leave due to bad processes. This would suggest that “back office” areas need to be transformed. Our experience tells us that the root cause of problems found on […]
Does Your Company Have a Lean Culture?
Why do so many companies fail at lean transformations? I get this question quite frequently. I have had the opportunity in my career to literally work with hundreds of companies. Those that don’t make it usually have one thing in common: lack of top-level support from leadership. So many companies try to excel at the […]