How to Keep your CEO Lean Focused

Perhaps the most common complaint among champions of Lean manufacturing is the difficulty in keeping their chief executive officers (CEOs) focused on the idea.

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The trick to making Lean principles a more mainstream part of the business is quite simple conceptually, says Peter Martin, vice president of business value generation atInvensys Operations Management(http://iom.invensys.com) in Plano, Texas. It’s a matter of translating the benefits of Lean into the language spoken in the executive suite—that is, the language of profitability.

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