Organizations Must Go on a DIET to Become Lean

Organizations Must Go on a DIET to Become Lean

Lean is focused on the elimination or reduction of waste and the continuous improvement of the overall performance of a company. Acquiring the proficiency to accomplish more with less is the path toward removing insignificant activities from organizational practices. Creating more value and applying a different way of thinking during processes is at the heart of lean concepts. A diet to become lean consists of principles that organizations integrate through Discipline, Improvement, Efficiency, and Training (DIET):

- discipline. When incorporating a diet in your organizational practices, discipline is vital before your system becomes fit. The leader needs to be a dedicated champion for change, open-minded, and without skepticism. It is important to have a methodical understanding of the issues facing the organization and the environment for which it operate as one of its biggest challenges toward the plan to become lean. The most significant aspect for the successful implementation of lean mythologies is to ensure that it becomes a part of the everyday mindset within the organization. Setting the stage for a structured process for managing and maintaining the diet of an organization will require a consistent serving of discipline.

- Continuous Improvement is a nutritional requirement that provides healthy solutions to an organizational diet. In today's economy, a company has to supplement improvement at all levels of the organization as part of the strategic goal. Understanding the need for growth and learning while standardizing processes are the foundation of the ongoing effort to improve product, services, and processes. Customizing a culture that drives change with constant improvement will motivate and enable the organization to recognize and detoxify waste along with enhancing its dedication toward the objective.

- Efficiency is another fundamental component of the DIET to becoming lean, which encompasses various practices to enhance quality, competence, and responsiveness to customers. In an effort to focus on escalating efficiency, an organization needs to burn off non-value added practices and processes while concentrating on issues caused by its most important challenges. Practicing perfection and maintaining persistence toward a lean environment will encourage efficiency and motivate the need for continuous improvement, despite the organizational challenges.

- Training. Creating a culture of continuous learning is essential. Successful implementation requires all employees be trained to identify and remove waste from processes. It is imperative while implementing lean to be aware of the strictness of your organization's DIET. The pivot of lean initiative involves the training of personnel, which is instrumental in it successful implementation. Lean is a tool and technique, but most importantly, a way of thinking, which begins with exercising the muscle of the organization from top-down. The philosophy, values, and practices of lean are more effective when applied across the entire organization.

Lean concepts encompass various practices of applying philosophies and techniques of eliminating waste. Integrating the principles of discipline, improvement, efficiency, and training (DIET) into a lean initiative creates a culture that embraces change. Learning to eliminate non-value added practices and processes through a DIET plan assures the organization is on the strict path to becoming lean.

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		-2 Jason Osborn Manager, United Kingdom
	Lean Manufacturing and Culture Unfortunately it sounds like you've read all the books, the reality of employing Lean is that it is ... Sign up

		3 Joe Boyle United States
	Organizations Must Go on a DIET to Become Lean Acronyms are a good way to help us remember and tell stories. DIET helps us to remember keys to ci -... Sign up

		1 James Shanbrom Entrepreneur, United States
	Lean Organization Diet @Jason Osborn: my organization went on a diet and lost about 750 pounds, I mean employees in just tw... Sign up

		1 KATHRYN STEINER, MBA Entrepreneur, United States
	Zappos and Google Good Examples of combining Function and Fun Within Business @Jason Osborn: great acronym... and discussion... I recently saw an interview on the 20/20 with Zapp... Sign up

		2 Marty Conway, UK
	DIET Proves to Be a Great Starting Point for Discussion It is a great starting point to use DIET to discuss Lean with inexperienced employees. The reality o... Sign up

		0 Jagdish Mehta Entrepreneur, India
	DIET is the Order of the Day Yes, I believe, DIET is the key to integrate, harness and accelerate the growth engine of an organiz... Sign up

		2 subramanyam Business Consultant, India
	Executives Must Also Go on a Diet A very interesting and useful proposition. In addition, all important executives of the company must... Sign up

		3 SAMUEL LUZOBE Consultant, Uganda
	Rude Shock - You are Obese! The DIET acronym helps to recall critical issues related to 'leanness' of an organization. Like in... Sign up

		9 Mirza Fareed Beg Management Consultant, Pakistan
	DIET Without T (training) Leads Fat Organizations to DIE The "T" in DIET is the most important factor towards making 'obese' organizations Lean. "T"raining i... Sign up

		2 Jaikrishna Manager, India
	DIET Extremely Useful to Explain Lean The DIET acronym is indeed extremely useful to put across the concept of Lean. 1. The general meani... Sign up

		0 K.S.SUBRAMANIAM Consultant, India
	People in an Organisation Must Be TIED to Become Lean The people in an organisation should be TIED -- Training, Improvement, Efficiency, Discipline -- to ... Sign up

		2 Jasper Mugambi Manager, Kenya
	ING not Linked to a Lean Strategy @KATHRYN PAWLEY STEINER : adding ING: Inspirational, Necessary to economy and culture and Giving bac... Sign up

		2 Ellis, United Kingdom
	Pitfalls when you're DIETing to Become Lean DIET is a great acronyms and definitely food for thought, provided it's the right food, of course. ... Sign up

		2 Srikumar Varma India
	DIETing is not Simply a Cost Reduction Tool The idea of DIET should not be used of as a cost reduction tool and a means of reducing employees. P... Sign up

		3 Eric Schmitz Consultant, Belgium
	First Value for the Customer, Then DIET The DIET concept should – as everything – be improved continuously. First of all, DIET can only wo... Sign up

		0 K.Narayana Moorthy HR Consultant, India
	DIET and Lean Management in Enterprises Lean management in an enterprise is eliminating waste and creating value in the system. This is diff... Sign up

		0 Milko Cuadros Saavedra Director, Bolivia
	DIET and Lean Management in Enterprises I like the DIET acronym and analogy very much. Sometimes it's easier to understand things in other w... Sign up

		4 melchiorre calabrese, Italy
	Organization Must Go on a DIET to Become Lean @Mirza Fareed Beg: Great! Wise and homorous! I really appreciate your consideration!... Sign up

		0 KATHRYN STEINER, MBA Entrepreneur, United States
	Does ING adds to DIET Fundamentals? @Jasper Mugambi: thank you for your comments. Initially it would not appear my suggestions I-Inspira... Sign up