The challenges and solutions to implementing the lean concept: the case of Lithuanian companies

• Autorzy: Vienažindienė Milita , Čiarnienė Ramunė

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17512/pjms.2023.28.2.24

Warianty tytułu

PL

Wyzwania i rozwiązania związane z wdrażaniem koncepcji Lean: przypadek litewskich przedsiębiorstw

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Lean philosophy is one of the wide-ranging ways to promote efficiency while emphasizing a high level of awareness about the customer. Despite the attempts by multiple companies worldwide to implement partial or whole spectrum of the Lean concept for better performance, the failure rate in the Lean transformation among organizations reaches as high as 90%. The paper aims to identify the main challenges and barriers to Lean implementation in Lithuania and to provide proposals on how to facilitate it. To achieve this aim, the authors of the paper present a theoretical conceptual model that illustrates the main benefits, barriers, and proposals for successful Lean implementation. Based on the theoretical analysis, qualitative research in the form of semi-structured interviews based on open-ended questions was used. The results of empirical research revealed that most companies implement the Lean concept with the aim to reduce different types of waste, simplify the processes and make them more efficient, increase production capacity, and ensure more effective customer service. The most successful Lean tools addressing the existing problems are 5S (6S), process mapping, standardization, visual management, Kaizen, and Kanban. The main barriers which delay Lean transformations can be grouped into people-related, organizational, and process-related. Employee training, motivation, Lean leadership, and creation of an enabling culture could be the main recommendations for the facilitation of challenges and barriers to Lean implementation.

PL

Filozofia Lean jest jednym z szeroko zakrojonych sposobów promowania wydajności przy jednoczesnym podkreśleniu wysokiego poziomu świadomości oczekiwań klienta. Pomimo podejmowanych przez wiele firm na całym świecie prób wdrożenia części lub całego spektrum koncepcji Lean w celu uzyskania lepszych wyników, wskaźnik niepowodzeń w transformacji Lean wśród organizacji sięga nawet 90%. Artykuł ma na celu zidentyfikowanie głównych wyzwań i barier związanych z wdrażaniem Lean na Litwie oraz przedstawienie propozycji ukierunkowanej na poprawę skuteczności wdrożeń. Aby osiągnąć ten cel, autorzy artykułu przedstawiają teoretyczny model koncepcyjny, który ilustruje główne korzyści, bariery i propozycje udanego wdrożenia Lean. W oparciu o analizę teoretyczną zastosowano badania jakościowe w formie częściowo ustrukturyzowanych wywiadów opartych na pytaniach otwartych. Wyniki badań empirycznych wykazały, że większość firm wdraża koncepcję Lean w celu zmniejszenia różnych rodzajów marnotrawstwa, uproszczenia procesów i zwiększenia ich wydajności, zwiększenia zdolności produkcyjnych i zapewnienia bardziej efektywnej obsługi klienta. Najskuteczniejsze narzędzia Lean rozwiązujące istniejące problemy to 5S (6S), mapowanie procesów, standaryzacja, zarządzanie wizualne, Kaizen i Kanban. Główne bariery opóźniające transformację Lean można podzielić na te związane z ludźmi, organizacją i procesami. Szkolenie pracowników, motywacja, przywództwo Lean i tworzenie sprzyjającej kultury mogą być głównymi zaleceniami dotyczącymi ułatwiania wyzwań i barier we wdrażaniu Lean.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Lean concept; Lean implementation; challenge; barriers; Lithuania

PL

koncepcja Lean; wdrożenie Lean; wyzwania; bariery; Litwa

• Wydawca: Czestochowa University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Management Studies
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 28, No. 2
• Strony: 423--440
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 35 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Vienažindienė Milita

• Department of Business and Rural Development Management, Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9894-6811

autor

Čiarnienė Ramunė

• Sustainable Management research group, School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6349-5352

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).