After years of observing organizations struggle with lean manufacturing implementation, I founded Basic Lean, Inc. I saw firsthand that the inability to implement and sustain lean principles was a result of the basics not being in place within the operating system.

There are many that feel reinforcing the fundamentals is not the answer to operational inefficiencies and so continue going forward at any cost, only to realize that what they are attempting is not working.

Let’s Take Baseball – or any Sport for that Matter

Every year at spring training, players are taught how to slide, how to square around to bunt, how to swing, how to throw – or in other words the fundamentals – the basics.

When team managers are interviewed after losing a game, the general reason given for the loss is, “We didn’t do the basics.”

When Tiger Woods is asked why he didn’t win, his usual response is that he didn’t have his “A” game – he didn’t follow the basics.

Today, many business leaders are so focused on the bottom-line that they lose sight of what must be done consistently in an organization to be efficient in its operation – the basics.

Basic Lean, Inc. advances the organization through the lean transformation by ensuring the basics are understood and become the standard, and then and only then do we take the next step to develop the total lean enterprise.