features That Differentiate Lean Organizations from Other Organizations

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Features That Differentiate Lean Organizations from Other Organizations

The following are the features that differentiate lean organization from other organizations,

Lean organizations focus on creating customer value, which is seen as the path to a continued business success. They not only seek to understand customer’s requirements but also their expectations of product quality, price and delivery.

Another feature that differentiates them from other organizations is flexibility of the workforce. This means that they have the ability to react to changes in customer need.

Unlike other organizations, lean organizations value partnerships. Teams are seen as important assets in the organization because they form an absolute carve of the product from the idea of innovation to the release of the product.

Organizational alignment is also a feature that distinguishes lean enterprises from other organization. They focus on making workers to understand their purpose but not the tasks assigned to them.

Lean organizations empower their employees encouraging them to share responsibilities to enable the success of the organization.

 

Would rather work in a lean organization or a traditional organizations

One would prefer working in a lean organization than in a traditional organization simply because they focus more on creating value for customers with fewer resources. A lean organization focuses more on creating processes that require less capital, time, space and human labor to make products unlike in traditional organization whereby a lot of money is spent in the manufacture of products. Working in a lean organization is advantageous in that they outweigh traditional organization in they way they respond to changing customer desires.

 

Information management in lean organization is more accurate compared to traditional organizations as they embrace technological innovation, which enhance easy flow of information between workers and customers. Other advantages of working with a lean organization is that, there is reduced cycle times, greater throughput, better productivity and improved quality of products compared to traditional organizations.

 

How does a successful strategy program help a company to become lean?

 

A successful strategy program is important in that it makes operational changes to become part of a company thus influencing both the management and workers to work towards the achievement of organizational success. They also mark the transition from operational planning to choosing a direction for the organization. With this programs, companies are able to forecast population shifts and concentrate on understanding changing technological developments, competitor initiatives and stakeholder needs.

 

A SUCCESSFUL stareategy program is essential in helping a company to become laen in that it focuses on the  benefits and the external and internal threads that make an organization achieve its goals.

 

It also helps in integrating Human resource policies and talent management with effective implementation needs

 

Help companies discover controls and incentives to control and motivate performance including methods to achieve effective coordination.

 

It helps an organization in building a knowledge management roadmap

 

A successful program helps organization achieve an active and full executive support, employee inviolvement, effective communication and thorough organizational competitive analysias and planning

3. Why does reducing set-up times lead to improved operations

Reducing set-up times leads to improved operations because they enable companies to schedule lesser batches, which reduce a company’s inventory in finished goods. The also enable an organization to fulfill customers demands with reduced employee efforts.

The operation is also important in that it raises productivity, reduces lead time, increases flexibility  and improvers quality of products which leads to improved organizational operations.

 

 

 

5. How is supplier-customer teamwork in a supply chain achieved

 

In an integrated supply chain, suppliers and customers must work together to reduce end-to-end effects from operations and materials to create innovations that reinforce competitiveness and deliver a sustainable business value.

 

 

 

6.In what ways would applying lean principles to the University of New Haven improve the education for the student?

 

 

 

 

4What are the disadvantages and advantages of focused factories

Disadvantages

Focused factories are less proficient in creating modified products for high-ending consumers.

A focus factory is disadvantageous in that it does not allow manufacturing of many products which makes it monotonous.

Focused factories are limited to only one manufacturing task at a time which is time consuming.

It requires large investment especially when the factory decides to move from a convebtional to a more focused process,

 

Advanatages

Concentration and repetition in one area allows its managers and workforce to become experience and effective in the task required for success.

A focused factory is controllable and manageable despite the fcat that its prbklems arelomited in one scope.

A focused product has the ability to undersell and outproduce to quickly gain a competitive advantage over the compelx factory.

A focused factory is easy to manage as it strives for a narrow range of  customers, products and processes.