If you are reading this, it is because you are serious about learning how your company has improve its overall performance by doing more with less.

When you embrace the lean enterprise approach, you are accepting the fact that there are aspects of your company which may not be needed. Now, this does not mean that you are going to start firing staff left and right. What it means is that you need to figure out the optimal resource allocation for your company.

However, if that does mean cutting out parts of your company, both staff and equipment, then so be it. Often, eliminating parts of a company or organization is much more useful than attempting to retrain or reallocate such resource.

As a matter of fact, most companies make the mistake of throwing money at a problem. By that, we mean that a good deal of companies believe that having large and even bloated structures will ensure them with the resources that they need in order to make the most of their assets.

The reality is that there is no need for large or even small structures; the challenge is to determine what your company actually needs and go from there. When you are able to identify what your company truly needs (both in terms of staff and equipment) you will be able to make the most of the assets in your company.

So, let’s take a look at how the lean enterprise approach can help you get there.