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06/08/2012 05:17 PM
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Hi
I am looking for a lean maturity grid similar to cossby's maturity grid for quality. has someone worked on this? any idea if you can share.
Vikas
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06/11/2012 11:24 AM
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Hi Vikas
To date no one I know that really lives Lean has even tried. There is a simple reason for that, Lean is a journey that does not end till, the individual or organization on it ends. Maturity grids give organizations a false sense of achievement, and reduce the drive to get better after attaining a certain level. Everyone should remember that todays great performance is tomorrows average performance, and the next day's poor performance.
That could be one reason I really dislike using benchmarks, as setting a goal to attain something fixed will in the end leading to an organization always being middle of the pack or less. Leaders only have one benchmark there last periods performance, and they are driven to pass it.
Robert Drescher
ELSE Inc.
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06/13/2012 10:34 AM
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Hi Vikas,
I have worked with the Toyota Evaluation Score (TES) which is used to measure an organisations approach to TPS. This looks at the production process, warehousing and kaizen mindset on seperate sheets and combines them for an overall score (different weighting applies). This may be along the lines of what you are talking about.
Robert,
Live you quote "Leaders only have one benchmark there last periods performance, and they are driven to pass it."
I might use it.
Jason.
Textlean-learnings
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06/14/2012 10:18 AM
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Vikas, since there apparently is no universally accepted standard definition of Lean (my opinion), a company first needs to develop there own definition, i.e., what does being Lean mean to them.
They then need to determine what goals they would have to achieve to become Lean - by their definition. Goals could relate to reduction of production throughput time, reduced labor costs , reduced inventories of both raw materials and work-in-progress, reduced product costs, improved quality in terms of minimizing defects, improved supply chain performance, etc.,
Once they understand what their goals are and what they have to do to achieve them, they would be in a position to measure maturity in terms of what percentage of each goal they are meeting each month or each quarter if the efforts required to achieve their goals were significant.
It starts by identifying what Lean means and what a company needs to do to become Lean by their definition.
Sam Tomas
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06/15/2012 12:06 PM
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Vikas,
The only time I have seen any (good) kind of Lean measure, it was 5S based, in a radar (spider) graph, on a scale of zero to five. Trouble is that when the measure in a category approached 4 or better, the goals got steeper, and the score went back down again.
Not fair you say? Remember the goal for any metric is improvement, and you will see that any 5S or Lean metric that approached the top notch implied that there is no more improvement to be made - not a very Lean concept. Accomplishments were celebrated, to be sure, but everyone understood that today's improvement is tomorrow's standard.
There is no finish line.
Dan
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