Change Fatigue Is Killing Your Lean Initiative — Here's How to Beat It
Lean Nation; If you've been building a lean culture, you know the playbook: link strategy to improvement by defining outcomes aligned to true north, map your key value streams, drive A3 thinking through projects and rapid-cycle events, then lock in the gains with standard work and visual management. It works. For a while. Then, about a year in, something strange happens. The value stream you set out to fix has been transformed. Standard work is everywhere. Visual boards are up. And your management team is exhausted. A quiet question starts circulating: Aren't we done? Didn't we just do all this? The answer is no — and how you respond to that question will decide whether your improvement effort survives. The Break That Kills Lean Initiatives The pause organizations take after their first full pass through a value stream (or sometimes in thr middle of the first pass) is one of the most common ways lean initiatives quietly die. No one announces ...