26.2 great reasons to be a Lean organisation

This weekend the London Marathon takes place. For the thousands of eager participants to have the best chance of completing the course they need to be as lean as possible. At IiE we have specialists with Tools and Approaches to help you reach your Lean goals. If your organisation is as serious as the athletes about the achievement of success, here are 26.2  ABC reasons to take the same Lean approach

• Attitude that is positive to give a great start
• Better results from the efforts of your people
• Compliance made easier with the use of consistent processes
• Direction for your people to assist them in their functions and operations
• Excellence in the way you operate
• Financial agility with sharp focus on the best investments
• Global reach of the best practices across your organisation
• Happy people and customers delivering and receiving a great service
• Inventory that meets exact needs, with no excess
• Just in time delivery of the right things to the right places
• Kaizen culture to make things better every day
• Lean management of the whole organisation, with the best use of all its assets
• Materials that can be used in the most efficient way
• No waste of effort or investment
• Order to what you do, and the methods for doing it
• Performance at world class levels sustaining your organisation for the long term
• Quality of outputs and delivery that will breed loyalty from customers
• Repetition of satisfaction among your customers for what you deliver
• Stock that is managed to give the best use for all stakeholders
• Tidy work places to aid efficiency
• Uniformity to processes as an aid to quality
• Variance of output minimised or eliminated
• Waste is controlled and reduced to a minimum
• X factor to be injected into your teams efforts
• Yes “we have a solution” as the default attitude and culture to facing a challenge
• Zero tolerance to waste in the organisation

There you have it – 26 reasons. What about the “.2” you ask? That’s whatever you want. Perhaps a bowl of pasta? Best of luck from us here at IiE to the brave souls in the #LondonMarathon this Sunday. We’ll be following them all (on twitter at least!)