TY  - CONF
TI  - Projects Are Becoming ‘Lean’, but Not Organisations
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 693
EP  - 703
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0177
AU  - Lota, Paramjit Singh 
AU  - TM, Vijayashree 
AU  - Dave, Bhargav 
AD  - Solution Specialist, VisiLean, India, paramjit.lota@visilean.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4187-337X
AD  - Solution Specialist, VisiLean, India, vijayashree@visilean.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-4552-0873
AD  - CEO, VisiLean, India, bhargav@visilean.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-506X 
AB  - There is significant evidence of successful lean implementation at the project level. However, there is limited evidence of lean percolating through organisations in both literature, as well as industry. While the critical aspects of strategic adoption of lean to overcome organisational resistance have been clearly highlighted, the implementation is in most cases limited to select projects and not all projects across an organisation’s portfolio. Despite proven benefits on projects within their own portfolio and the knowledge and skills for successfully implementing lean, organisations still fail to change their approach towards continuous improvement and driving efficiency as a whole. The paper here focuses on the need for a revised approach towards the adoption and sustenance of lean within companies at a business level by highlighting the importance of culture across the company’s portfolio. The authors reflect on their experience of working with client and contractor organisations across multiple projects to review the difference in the maturity and implementation of lean. Following this, the authors corroborate their findings from discussion with a major public sector body and its supply chain on their lean journey over the last decade, to shed light on the approach needed today for successful lean implementation for organisation-wide sustenance.
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - Lean Culture
KW  - Lean Implementation
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2022/07/27
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1999/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1999
N1  - Export Date: 29 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -