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Lean Leaders may face a tremendous amount of resistance when implementing and sustaining Lean in their organizations. The complexity associated with the dynamic of organizational processes in the 21st century: mobility of the work force, ever-changing product portfolios, and their related value stream adjustments are some of the reasons for this. Taking an organizational network view, this paper provides leaders with both a definition of Resilience, as well as coherent criteria to quantify the Lean Structural Network Resilience (LSNR) to the lean transformation that is associated with the mentioned changes in the organization. By implementing LSNR as a metric to measure resistance to change to Lean, Leaders can make informed Value Stream related business decisions in order to support sustainable growth.
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Villalba-Diez, J., De Sanctis, I., Ordieres-Meré, J., Ciarapica, F.E. (2018). Lean Structural Network Resilience. In: Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Karsai, M., Musolesi, M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications VI. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 689. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72150-7_49
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