Many manufacturers put great effort into their lean initiatives, but never realize the vision of performance excellence. This video shows how the secret to success in lean production is the ability to get large numbers of employee ideas. Both office and production workers see many problems and opportunities their managers miss. They have lots of ideas to save money and improve efficiency. The leanest companies in the world routinely implement more than twenty ideas per employee per year. The video concludes with an overview of the concepts in the rest of the series.
