The greatest customer focused companies have come a long way since the time of classic LEAN approach to create customer value – luckily for us customers. “The original core idea behind LEAN is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply put, LEAN means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A LEAN organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste” – quote LEAN Enterprise Institute. (linkedin.com)