Moving towards Creating an Organic Lean Manufacturing Organisation

摘要

In recent years there has been widespread discussion concerning the shift away from traditional production paradigm and clear advancement of lean manufacturing as a fundamentally new approach. This approach is dominated by product quality, differentiation, and price. The paper argues that the move beyond high performance production is necessary in order to create long term organization competitive advantage. Organizations are entangled in environments where producers, suppliers' customers, and external agencies interact with each other. This interaction stimulates and creates innovation and change in all the participants. Thus an organic environment is required to accommodate both the lean manufacturing and the internal organization sense making. The use of sense making concept as the main tool for organizational learning is pivotal. The paper illustrates how the above have been developed and implemented as an integrated approach to creating an organic lean manufacturing organization in two large manufacturing companies in a developing Country. The approach combines the use of Emergence Strategy approach, Lean manufacturing, sense making, capability enabling, change creation, and problem exploration and solving approaches.