Supply Chain News: Lean is Simple – So Why Is It So Hard?

The following column comes through special arrangement with the Lean Enterprise Institute. It was authored by Lean consultant Art Byrne, an operating partner with J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm..

Recently a colleague asked me why Lean, which appears to be so simple, ends up being so hard for people to do. In my decades of leading Lean, in fact, this has proven to be perhaps the most important challenge. Read more