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Lean & Agile
In a world characterized by increasing complexity organizations must ensure operational efficiency meanwhile constantly innovating their products, processes, and services. Our team analyzes the coexistence of lean and agile manufacturing to understand how companies can implement dual operating systems.
The paradox between lean and agile
Authors:
Andrea Furlan, Full professor
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andrea.furlan.unipd.it
Project description
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Lean vs. Agile? Improving the existing vs. exploring the new? This is the dilemma that companies often have to face. Traditionally, organizations have adopted an either/or approach to address this dilemma. Accordingly, leaders were required to understand the characteristics of the decision-making context in order to adopt the most appropriate response. However, a third approach can be considered: moving from an either Lean or Agile approach to a both Lean and Agile approach to both improve the existing and explore the new. The dilemma becomes a paradox, fueling tensions in the company to make the conflict between improving and exploring explicit. The purpose of this study is to investigate how leadership mindset and dual strategic, organizational and behavioral models must change to embrace this paradox.
The lean and agile infrastructure
Case studies
Authors:
Michela Carraro, Postdoctoral researcher
Ambra Galeazzo, Assistant professor
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Project description
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The more and more frequent disruptive changes challenge manufacturing firms to become more and more ambidextrous. To face this challenge, organizations are looking with interest at ways of combining lean and agile paradigms. The purpose of this study is to investigate how manufacturing firms are adapting their organizational infrastructures to support the integration between lean and agile paradigm.