The concept of Lean is not only for manufacturing. Whether you run a flower shop or a blog, you can implement lean business concepts. Whats the benefit of running a lean business and how to achieve that?
Lean here is not entirely referring to a concept in manufacturing that also includes Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, and the others, but the idea of being lean is applicable to any businesses.
By lean, a small business is transformed in such a way that it runs in the most effective and efficient manners. That is achieved by streamlining operations in such a way that wastes are minimal.
A lean small business is enabled to deliver orders swiftly in timely manner; a lean small business is responding quickly to changes; a lean small business innovates better and delivers better products/services.
Using a flower shop example I mentioned earlier, a lean flower shop can take a volume of orders effectively, delivering each in quality and timely manner.
Also using the blog example I mentioned above, a lean blog means you can publish better blog posts and accommodates others to contribute for your blog via guest posts easily.
The bottom line regardless of your business, you can go lean.
