Lean Transformation of Multinational Concerns
نویسندگان
چکیده
Competitive pressure demands that companies constantly strive to catch up to world class manufacturing performance and practice. Continuous change is a mode of competition for many companies [1]. This is a departure from the punctuated equilibrium model of change in which change is event triggered. This paper reports on exploratory studies from a multinational company adopting centrally managed pilot projects as a transformation mechanism for continuous change towards a lean business system and an organizational culture of continuous improvements (CI).
منابع مشابه
Identification of the Patient Requirements Using Lean Six Sigma and Data Mining
Lean health care is one of new managing approaches putting the patient at the core of each change. Lean construction is based on visualization for understanding and prioritizing imporvments. By using only visualization techniques, so much important information could be missed. In order to prioritize and select improvements, it’s essential to integrate new analysis tools to achieve a good unders...
متن کاملChange management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations
Lean Management is a standard production mode that has been familiar to production organizations for several decades. To date, however, academic literature has presented surprisingly little information about the application of Lean Management in Information Technology (IT) organizations, or what is called Lean IT. Drawing upon an empirical qualitative case study of the IT departments of two mul...
متن کاملImplementation of a Lean Model for Carrying out Value Stream Mapping in a Manufacturing Industry
Value Stream Mapping technique involves flowcharting the steps, activities, material flows, communications, and other process elements that are involved with a process or transformation. In this respect, Value stream mapping helps an organization to identify the non-value-adding elements in a targeted process and brings a product or a group of products that use the same resources through the ma...
متن کاملChallenges of ICT Companies in Lean Transformation
Current business environment is very turbulent requiring companies to adapt to changes. Many enterprises consider a fundamental change – transformation – in order to benefit from the opportunities and to respond to the challenges of the everchanging business environment. At the same time, interest in lean thinking has grown in industries and research communities. Lean paradigm is assessed as a ...
متن کاملThe Strategy of Korean Multinational Enterprises – Multiple versus Single plant
Using firm-level panel data for Korean MNEs, we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being the one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm. Comparisons of correlations between purchases and sales of each group of the foreign affiliates show distinctive difference in the motivations of FDI and the multinational activities, due to the difference in the numb...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006