Extending the Lean Enterprise – An Aberdeen Report

Based on survey responses of over 300 manufacturing and service industry professionals, Aberdeen has identified specific strategies for manufacturers to deploy at every stage along the Lean journey. The deployment of these best practices can be attributed to demonstrable performance benefits and should be leveraged when implementing and extending Lean within your organization.

The Best-in-Class are enjoying lower operating cots, coupled with better customer service. They key to this benchmark study is in determining just how the Best-in-Class are achieving these results. To achieve Best-in-Class performance, companies should:

• Extend the scope of Lean initiatives
• Leverage external domain experts for Lean initiatives
• Integrate multiply technology solutions to extend the functionality of traditional enterprise applications supporting Lean

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