A Lean leader uses excellent leadership to implement a sustainable Lean transformation, paving the way for top performance in their field. Shop Floor Management is the absolute heart and soul of this approach; it promotes consistently optimizing processes and empowering employees. The impact of Shop Floor Management can reach its full effect when it is complemented by other success factors:
Success factors for Lean leadership:
• Strategy: Policy deployment with Hoshin Kanri
• Organizing work: Value-Stream Organization, role of Honcho, agile teams
• Operational management: (Digital) Shop Floor Management, problem solving, Kata
• People: Change management – training – coaching
