July 20, 2007
Lean production survey says cut out middleman
Middle managers need to get out of the way for companies to implement lean production. That's the message of survey results released today by the Cambridge-based Lean Enterprise Institute.
In a survey of nearly 2,500 businesspeople conducted by the management research center, 36.1 percent of respondents cited middle-management resistance as an obstacle to streamlining production. The next most common responses were the lack of implementation know-how at 31 percent and employee resistance at 27.7 percent.
Last year's top response, backsliding into old ways of working, dropped to sixth place in the new survey.
In a survey of nearly 2,500 businesspeople conducted by the management research center, 36.1 percent of respondents cited middle-management resistance as an obstacle to streamlining production. The next most common responses were the lack of implementation know-how at 31 percent and employee resistance at 27.7 percent.
Last year's top response, backsliding into old ways of working, dropped to sixth place in the new survey.
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