Implementing Lean as a company philosophy and governance tool is to achieve and maintain Corporate Sustainability and High Performance. It is a strategy to find Performance in the turbulence of modern organizational life. It means accepting the facts that there is never a stand still and that closed systems don’t exist and working with these preconditions. Organizational life is movement, complexity, confusion, conflict, chaos etc. High Performance is playing with the complexities creating harmony, health and wholeness.

 Lean is the strategy to maintain High Performance meaning:

• Standardized value creating sustainable processes
• Built in change and development mechanisms
• Built in reflection, learning and improvement mechanisms.
• Slow decision process but fast realization
• Developing high performance people living and acting shared company values.
• Developing high performance teams living and acting shared company values
• Reduction of unnecessary work, movements, queues, transports, storages, mistakes, overproduction.
• Constant visual control of processes, of corporate sustainability chain