Lean is a business system that learns to solve the right problems faster than competitors while wasting less time, effort, capital and resources. Discover Daniel T Jones presentation from the 6th international Lean IT Summit in Paris in March 2017.

1. Lean Strategy:
Solving the right problems
Daniel T Jones

2. Technological opportunities
Work & organisation
User acceptance
Lean Startup
Agile Development
Design Thinking
Lean Product &
Process Development
Lean Thinking & Lean Strategy
The real digital challenge
Can we build people-centric
organisations for this age?

3. Common Obstacles
Strategy & planning separate from execution & operations
Bureaucratic systems & functional silos inherently resist change
Financial systems can’t see problems or improvements
Change through experts & compliance – disengaged employees
Innovation through big leaps & disruption
Lots of wasted time, effort, capital & resources

4. people-free factories or people-centric systems
simpler multi-model flexible factories
zero emissions
smaller footprint
40% less cost
autonomous products or human assist
“artificial intelligence is the future
but people come first”

5. Toyota’s strategy was always based on learning
Gemba as a source of transformation – dynamic gains
Challenging and enabling everyone to grow & develop
Continuous innovation of leading technologies
Lean strategy is solving the right problems
using a different way of thinking
Choosing people-centric solutions

6. Personal commitment to learn & to support learning by everyone

7. Lead from the ground up
Go to the gemba – help solve an immediate problem
& show your commitment to learn
Begin to see the underlying problems
& the capabilities needed to solve them
Set the improvement directions
Which physical metrics will yield the desired business results
Clear how everyone can contribute to make these improvements

8. Toyota Production System is a learning system
Single-loop &
double-loop
learning
Improving work
& processes

9. Form solutions through repeated experiments
Reusable knowledge
captured in standards
Reusable learning
to solve tomorrows’ problems
Not about rolling out “best practice”

10. Products are a stream of value - with a takt time
Parallel evolution of technical capabilities
Chief Engineer – observes the user, producer and supplier gembas
Defines the overall product concept
Makes judgements on new and existing features
Technical departments – provide the knowledge
& manage the learning curves
Continuous innovation in line with user needs the key
to learning faster than the competition

11. Lean is a business system
that learns to solve
the right problems
faster than competitors
while wasting less time, effort,
capital & resources

12. Daniel T Jones
dan@leanuk.org
@DanielJonesLean
Lean Strategy:
Solving the right problems