For your lean thinking project, identify and describe the business environment. is there more than one layer to the business environment? Who will be responsible for deciding whether lean thinking goes ahead or not after the initial investigations? Are accountability and ownership for lean thinking clearly defined? Does lean thinking create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered? How has lean thinking been applied in software development lean thinking focuses on speed and removing obstacles to process execution sometimes lean is combined with six sigma projects which focus on reducing errors?

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

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