Sustaining lean construction activity

摘要

There is much evidence and research now showing that Lean helps contractors deliver projects on time or often early, and usually under budget while still making a profit. Many contractors are jumping on the Lean bandwagon. It makes a lot of sense to implement ways to reduce wasted resources, especially in a down economy. However, implementing change is hard work, and maintaining the change is even harder. It is easy to say someone else needs to change, but it's much more difficult to change oneself. The challenge, to those contractors implementing Lean, is to make and then sustain the improvement. Here are five ways to help sustain the changes, once you have implemented them.