Comments on: New Lean Enterprise Institute Survey http://www.leanblog.org/2008/04/new-lei-survey/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Yip http://www.leanblog.org/2008/04/new-lei-survey/#comment-3483 Jason Yip Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:43:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2008/04/new-lean-enterprise-institute-survey/#comment-3483 Having just been learning about Appreciative Inquiry, I wonder if it's also useful (or perhaps more useful) to do a root cause analysis of the successful aspects of a Lean implementation. I would expect that even in the most difficult implementations, there was success somewhere. I would also expect that analysing these positive deviants will lead to the same understanding of what works and what doesn't.<br/><br/>The difference is that we can ground changes in a solution that has already been shown to be successful. I'd suggest that it's less likely that approaching the situation from the other side will encourage blame. Having just been learning about Appreciative Inquiry, I wonder if it’s also useful (or perhaps more useful) to do a root cause analysis of the successful aspects of a Lean implementation. I would expect that even in the most difficult implementations, there was success somewhere. I would also expect that analysing these positive deviants will lead to the same understanding of what works and what doesn’t.

The difference is that we can ground changes in a solution that has already been shown to be successful. I’d suggest that it’s less likely that approaching the situation from the other side will encourage blame.

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