New Ways for Lean Management

As the key to the achievements of effective managers is not their personalitybut their way of action the structural necessity to formalize the fundamentalcharacteristics of the mode of doing effective business becomes obvious. Thisdefiance can be tackled with an approach that emerged within the last twodecades representing a holistic philosophy with the potential of integratingmany particulate concepts and instruments: Lean Management.The Lean Concept itself however was unable to answer the question ofoptimal personnel structure and the problem of loss of human capital withinreorganization efforts. Demonstrating that the concept of Lean indeed is aflexible model it is therefore possible to apply incentive theory to analyze thisproblem incorporating Lean Principles as well. The iteration model set up inthis book therefore included inter alia the principle of holism since it coversthe entire corporation within the endeavour of business processreorganization.This book addresses ambitious decision makers and students at the sametime all those who aim for process improvement in the light of holism andthe premises of a constantly changing environment.