Lean in a Week!

In the true spirit of continuous improvement I am ever so proud to share with you an even lean-er version of my original blog entitled First 10 steps to lean.  I would first like to thank the creaters of Twitter and their 140 character limit on tweets.  And I should also thank the Romans who invented the five day work week (I'm pretty sure they did - Google it).  As a result of these two parameters I recently came up with an even more precics "5 steps to Lean."  Or what I like to refer to as "Lean in a Week."

1. Monday Assignment: Set yourself a goal of figuring out who your customer is. Hint: customers exchange money for #Value
2. Tuesday's Assignment: Pretend to call your customer to ask them what adds #Value. Hint: its not what YOU think #Value 
3. Wednesday's Assignment: List every step to create your product/service. Hint: account for EVERYONE within your organization
4. Thursday's Assignment: Take the #Waste steps you don't need and STOP doing them Hint: This is called Type 2 Muda
5. Friday's Assignment: Take the remaining #Waste steps and assign small groups to eliminate them Hint: This is called #Kaizen 

 Good luck!