Lean Teams - Management Meditations

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lean Teams Developing the team -Based Organization The Skills and Practices of High Performance Business Teams By Lawrence M. Miller1 To compete in today s world of high speed processes, Six Sigma quality and continuous innovation, hierarchies have been crushed and the horizontal process rules. Managing with a focus on the horizontal flow of the work process through highly empowered and effective Teams is the key to competitive organizations. This paper is divided into two parts: the first defines a team -based organization, the what; the second part presents a well proven process for making the transition from a more traditional organization to an organization built around high performance business Teams . This is the how. What is A team -Based Organization? Throughout all of human history, from the cave to the craft shops of colonial America, the family was the primary work unit.

Lean Teams – Developing the Team-Based Organization 3 satisfaction of knowing that they are empowered to make decisions about their own work. They are business teams because they are essentially managing their own business.

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