Competitive pressure demands that companies constantly strive to catch up to world class manufacturing performance and practice. Continuous change is a mode of competition for many companies [1]. This is a departure from the punctuated equilibrium model of change in which change is event triggered. This paper reports on exploratory studies from a multinational company adopting centrally managed pilot projects as a transformation mechanism for continuous change towards a lean business system and an organizational culture of continuous improvements (CI). © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.
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Matthiesen, R. V., & Toma, J. J. (2008). Lean transformation of multinational concerns. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 257, 277–284. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77249-3_29
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