Has Strategy Deployment Lost Its Lean?

About this episode

Sean Buckland discusses the drift of Lean strategy deployment from its original principles.

If your strategy deployment feels like a box-ticking exercise, it’s a sign that something fundamental has been lost along the way. In this episode of Uncommon Sense, PMI Director Consultant Sean Buckland explores how Lean strategy deployment has quietly drifted away from its roots. Instead of connecting strategy to value streams, teams and learning, many organisations have replaced process with targets, and called it progress. Listen now and discover what true Lean strategy deployment looks l...

People in this episode

Host: Sean Buckland

Topics covered

• strategy deployment
• Lean
• value streams
• organizational progress
• process improvement

Keywords

• strategy deployment
• Lean
• value streams
• targets
• process

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Process Management International

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