Most often, when we associate “lean” with start ups, but it is a methodology which has been widely adopted by businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Lean methodology can be traced back to the late 1940’s and Toyota, who in reducing processes which didn’t bring value to the end product, achieved significant improvements in productivity, efficiency, cycle time, and cost-efficiency.
The core of lean methodology is a simple idea that “as waste is eliminated, quality improves while the production time and cost are reduced.’