Title :
Exploring the impact of lean management on innovation capability
Author :
Chen, Hongyi ; Taylor, Ryan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
design engineering; human resource management; innovation management; organisational aspects; supply chain management; innovation management; lean culture; lean design; lean human resource management; lean management; lean supply chain management; Companies; Costs; Design engineering; Engineering management; Innovation management; Manufacturing; Product design; Productivity; Technological innovation; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering & Technology, 2009. PICMET 2009. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-890843-20-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-890843-20-5
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2009.5262042
