When a company whispers the suggestion of a new lean project it doesn’t take long for business consultancies to descend with promises of transformation. Jane Gray finds out from lean consultancy providers and clients about what consultants need to consider before prescribing the right medicine and what manufacturers need to do to get the most out of their investment.
The lean consultancy marketplace is teeming and it is often difficult to differentiate the effective providers from the pedlars of empty business improvement rhetoric. And with so many manufacturers now being well versed in lean methodologies, tools and principles senior management frequently ask, what exactly can external expertise add to in-house experience? So why do…
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