Lean Thinking and the Innovation Process

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Author(s): Hilal Hurriyet (Western Sydney University, Australia)and Dilupa Nakandala (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Driving Competitive Advantage through Sustainable, Lean, and Disruptive Innovation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Latif Al-Hakim (University of Southern Queensland, Australia), Xiaobo Wu (Zhejiang University, China), Andy Koronios (University of South Australia, Australia)and Yongyi Shou (Zhejiang University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0135-0.ch002

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Entrepreneurship & Innovation / Management Science

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This chapter analyses the evolution of lean thinking and its widening applications from its origin of the manufacturing industry towards the other industries with the emphasis on how organizations could learn from lean thinking for achieving improved performance of innovation processes. Based on the degree of novelty, uncertainty and complexity associated with innovation processes, direct adoption of lean thinking for optimization is considered to be challenging. We discuss that organizations need to realize that there are opportunities for lateral learning from lean applications that have benefited systematic repetitive processes such as manufacturing by adapting to innovation processes through identification and shedding of non-value added activities. By identifying several lean innovation approaches in practice for optimizing innovation process, we stress the need and opportunity for the adaptation of lean thinking to cater the special characteristics of innovation processes.

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