Lean New Global Architecture: Journal & Resources
LNGA stands for Lean New Global Architecture.
This concept is designed to meet the growing need to establish a standard for the work shared by the global Lean community, taking into account that the standard must be the result of working together in an open conversation based on the experience of the many.
Here you will find relevant LNGA resources such as articles, videos and PowerPoint presentations.
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LNGA Journal
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How to Design a Lean Enterprise – In Real Life
There is no inherent value in an unrealized idea, a purpose that has not been translated into action, or a vision that has not been transformed into a way of life. This is also true for the world-wide Lean movement: We seek to design a concept of management and organizational culture that provide a means to cope effectively with the technological, global environment, geopolitical challenges and constantly-changing business environment.
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The LNGA Program: A Guide for Organizational Change
The Value Creating Architect (VCA) Concept Paper produced by the LNGA Design team provides us with what we need — the Definition of the Customer, the Purpose, the Work, and the Product — to embark on the journey to create a new product.
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To Be the Change in the World
How to disseminate a view of management throughout the world and replace Taylorism, without turning this alternative view into a dogmatic, rigid and repetitive view that, in the end, ignores the needs of the customer?
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Designing the Job of the Chief Engineer
The more familiar I became with Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) formula, the greater my appreciation for the role of the Chief Engineer at Toyota.
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Learning from Toyota’s Chief Engineer
Integrating the Role of Chief Engineer in the Development of the Lean Management mindset and basic thinking.
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What TNGA Teaches Us About Resilience and Responsibility
Following a webinar with product development expert Jim Morgan, Lex Schroeder reflects on what the Toyota New Global Architecture and Chief Engineer system can teach us.
Recommended article by Lex Schroeder on Planet Lean
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Natural Selection – the Best Way to Encourage and Implement Ideas
The evolution of ideas as an accepted paradigm and basic assumption in organizational culture.
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People Packaged in Ideas – On Critical Thinking in Organizational Culture
In the field of product development, critical thinking is a methodological principle intended to transform an idea into a low risk, successful product.
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Lazy Culture, Dangerous Solutions
In most organizations, the high proportion of waste provides an almost infinite source of possibilities for improvement. Thus, ignorance or no-problem is necessarily a bad thing – rather, it should be thought of as a gap between what is and what should be and as an opportunity for learning and improvement.
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The Lean Marketing Divide: From Push to Pull
Organizations that intend to survive over time must give up their aggressive push marketing (advertising and PR) methods and replace them with a selection of products and services that are suited to the customer’s wants and needs.
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Value Creating Architect (VCA)
The Integrating, Cross-Functional Value Creating Architect (VCA)
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The Invisible Customer is the Hero of the Story
On the relationship between Steve Jobs, George Lucas, anthropologist Joseph Campbell, the crisis facing the cellular companies, and the construction of a myth. An alternative perspective on value-creating marketing.
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The Invisible consumer is (Also) the Hero of the Story
Richard Sheridan’s comment on Boaz Tamir’s post, “The Invisible Customer is the Hero of the Story”.
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Between High-Risk Profile Innovation and Business Sustainability
Product development involves an inherent tension between the spirit of the ground-breaking founders and the low-risk processes that intended to ground and stabilize that product. In a Lean organization, the Value-Creating Architect (VCA) is responsible for the balance between them.
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The Tension of Complexity as Opportunity
Can an organization and its decision-making processes be managed under conditions of extreme uncertainty? The chaos surrounding us demands that we forgo our obsessive attempt to control events and learn to view chaos and the tensions evoked as an opportunity for change.
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Creating space for Initiative in a Crowded, Chaotic World
In a complex-chaotic environment, it is necessary to decentralize and delegate control to the area in which small, experimental, interactive steps can be taken by the development staff and the workers on the line, who will become the strategic principle. This requires a change in perspective and mindset.
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Direct Leadership – Not by Proxy
When the fire breaks out – which happens every day in a chaotic environment – intense courage and patience are required in order to stop and invest managerial energies in building new work processes and adopting a new management mental model. Yet, our experience shows – there’s no alternative, and leadership can’t be outsourced.
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Learning by Doing – A Prescription for Leading Organizational Change
Surprises are an inevitable part of the journey towards change, and it is impossible to prepare for all possible scenarios. For this reason, the individuals and teams’ capacity for problem solving is a necessary skill within an organizational culture that is coping with a complexity and ever-changing business environment.
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LNGA Resources