TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the impact of lean management on innovation capability
AU - Chen, Hongyi
AU - Taylor, Ryan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Lean management and innovation are two driving forces of today's business success. However, with fundamentally different concepts, some aspects of lean management may negatively affect a company's capability to be successful with certain types of innovations. This paper develops a framework to analyze such impacts. With comparisons between the lean culture, lean design, lean supply chain management and lean human resource management with the characteristics and contributing factors of different types of innovations, five propositions are presented. Each proposition can be tested through several hypothesis tests in future work. In addition, different strategies for a company to achieve the balance and maintain lean and innovation at the same time are also discussed. Advantages, disadvantages, and suitable situations for each strategy are analyzed.
AB - Lean management and innovation are two driving forces of today's business success. However, with fundamentally different concepts, some aspects of lean management may negatively affect a company's capability to be successful with certain types of innovations. This paper develops a framework to analyze such impacts. With comparisons between the lean culture, lean design, lean supply chain management and lean human resource management with the characteristics and contributing factors of different types of innovations, five propositions are presented. Each proposition can be tested through several hypothesis tests in future work. In addition, different strategies for a company to achieve the balance and maintain lean and innovation at the same time are also discussed. Advantages, disadvantages, and suitable situations for each strategy are analyzed.
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U2 - 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262042
DO - 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262042
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450255325
SN - 1890843202
SN - 9781890843205
T3 - PICMET: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings
SP - 826
EP - 834
BT - PICMET 2009 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology - Proceedings
T2 - PICMET 2009 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
Y2 - 2 August 2009 through 6 August 2009
ER -