Focus of ‘Lean concepts vs. Innovation’ is

to maximize the ‘quality’ that an ‘innovation holds’ from the ‘products’ point of view

to maximize the ‘reliability’ that an ‘innovation holds’ from the ‘products’ point of view

Focus of value vs. innovation in lean implementation need to consider

value increase, value measure, and value evaluate

value count, value performance, and value flow

Lean concepts implementation in efficiency Improving’ Innovation

enable cost cuts which are then (partially) passed on to customers

enable man hour cuts which are then (partially) passed on to organization

In lean performance assessments, process cycle efficiency (PCE) is used

to ‘identify how much of a product is actually value-added’

to ‘identify how much of a process is actually value-added’