Lean in Person Life
Lean & Personal Development Paper #4
Sustaining Lean and Kaizen
10 November 2012
Abstract
As the end of the Lean management course nears, the value of the course is about to be unleashed. The highest value in my opinion in learning lean management is to implement lean in one’s personal life. This paper describes the five lean principles in general and further details how I would apply three of the five principles in my personal life.
Introduction There are five key principles of lean and figure 1 below shows these principles in their logic sequence. The principles are : 1. Identify Value. 2. Map the Value stream 3. Create Flow 4. Establish pull 5. Seek perfection.
Figure 1
Defining lean principles 1. Identify Value is to specify value from the standpoint of the end customer. 2. Map the value stream is to identify all steps in the value stream, eliminating whenever possible those steps that do not create value. 3. Create flow is to make the value creating steps occur in tight sequence so the product will flow smoothly toward the customer. 4. Establish pull is to let customers pull value from the next upstream activity. 5. Seek perfection is to repeat the steps above until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste.
My chosen three lean principles
I’ve chosen to apply the following three lean principles in my personal life. 1. Identify value 2. Map the current VSM 3. Establishing pull
Identifying Value in one’s personal life Value is solely, and wholly, defined by your customer and represents the attributes of a product or service for which they are willing to pay. As individuals, we’re in the unique position of being both the ‘customer’ and the ‘producer’ in our lives. We (as ‘customers’) directly experience the results of the actions we take and the decisions we
Sustaining Lean and Kaizen
10 November 2012
Abstract
As the end of the Lean management course nears, the value of the course is about to be unleashed. The highest value in my opinion in learning lean management is to implement lean in one’s personal life. This paper describes the five lean principles in general and further details how I would apply three of the five principles in my personal life.
Introduction There are five key principles of lean and figure 1 below shows these principles in their logic sequence. The principles are : 1. Identify Value. 2. Map the Value stream 3. Create Flow 4. Establish pull 5. Seek perfection.
Figure 1
Defining lean principles 1. Identify Value is to specify value from the standpoint of the end customer. 2. Map the value stream is to identify all steps in the value stream, eliminating whenever possible those steps that do not create value. 3. Create flow is to make the value creating steps occur in tight sequence so the product will flow smoothly toward the customer. 4. Establish pull is to let customers pull value from the next upstream activity. 5. Seek perfection is to repeat the steps above until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste.
My chosen three lean principles
I’ve chosen to apply the following three lean principles in my personal life. 1. Identify value 2. Map the current VSM 3. Establishing pull
Identifying Value in one’s personal life Value is solely, and wholly, defined by your customer and represents the attributes of a product or service for which they are willing to pay. As individuals, we’re in the unique position of being both the ‘customer’ and the ‘producer’ in our lives. We (as ‘customers’) directly experience the results of the actions we take and the decisions we
References: * Tapping D and Shuker T, Value Stream Management for the Lean Office, 2003 * A Lean Journey_Kanban for Personal Management, www.aleanjourney.com * Geoffreylennon, Lean for Life – Defining Value (Personal Life)