Lean requires certain things to be successful.

1. 8 things
Lean
requires

2. Created by Tom Curtis 2011
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3. Cost comes in many a form,
that is outside our thinking norm.

4. Introduction
Lean requires... How would you finish this
sentence? Give it some thought. Lean is not free and
is often hard. Its simple concepts sometimes lull us
into believing it to be easier than reality shows. What
follows is eight of my answers and micro-essays. Use
them as a thought starter to review what you think
Lean requires. Lean holds great promise if we invest
properly. If we have a better understanding of what is
required, we can better plan, implement, and maintain.
Enjoy the thought process. I welcome hearing how
you completed the sentence. Live Lean. --Tom Curtis

5. Time
Lean tools and concepts will
yield some early gains and
successes, but for the fuller
benefits of lean, time must
be given in implementation
and to allow growth.
Lean requires Time.

6. Resources
Resources are a key
investment of Lean. Without
the right skills and amount of
coaching and doing, Lean
goes from being a promising
theory to a source of
disappointment.
Lean requires resources.

7. Lean is not a single wave,
cycles of improvement are
required. Efforts must be
made to repeat, reinforce,
retrain, and review what is
taught and implemented.
We must be present.
Lean requires follow up.
Follow up

8. Implementing Lean cannot be a
part time thing. Implementing
Lean cannot be a surface
effort. It cannot be a shotgun
spread of activities. We must
begin with hawk like eyes on a
target we will ware out and then
move on to the next. We must
maintain before we move on.
Lean requires focus.
Focus

9. Patience
Lean will, with proper
application, show early results.
But as a bud peeking through
the dirt in Spring is not a flower
in full bloom so it is with Lean.
You will see beauty through out
the growth process but full
benefits require patience.
Lean requires patience.

10. Effort
Improvement rarely happens when
an implementation is left to itself.
There is a substantial requirement of
energy and stamina to drive lasting
improvement. We must ensure that
ourselves and those we work with
are able and willing to work with
enough pace and strength to make
the right things happen.
Lean requires effort.

11. Lean comes with plenty to
do, but if done correctly
also comes with a lot of
planning and thinking.
Doing without planning and
thinking frequently results
in waste. We must think as
we plan and as we do.
Lean requires thinking.
Thinking

12. Lean requires doing the hard
thing over and over again. It
will be resisted often strongly,
but sometimes in a quiet but
subservient way. We need to
overcome setbacks and
disappointments and provide
a steady course to follow.
Lean requires resiliency.
Resiliency