Organizational Transformation begins when leaders apply proven Lean principles across the enterprise. When culture shifts and processes improve—when individuals adopt the right mindset and your workforce employs the needed skillsets—that is when sustained, profitable growth is possible. Transformations like these are lasting, and they become core to the success of the business.
Lean Focus applies hundreds of Lean principles to maximize transformation outcomes.
While each principle plays a vital role in driving Organizational Transformation, three stand out as particularly essential and effective: Structured Problem-Solving, Customer Focus, and Go See Yourself. These principles work together to ensure your transformation addresses root causes, delivers real value, and is grounded in more than assumptions. When embedded into your organization’s DNA, they create the foundation for lasting, sustainable change.
Principle 1: Structured Problem-Solving addresses the true root cause, eliminating the guesswork that wastes time and resources.
When your scorecard is failing, it’s tempting to apply quick fixes. But quick fixes don’t last. Structured Problem-Solving is a disciplined approach that moves beyond symptoms to uncover the foundational issues holding your organization back. By following a rigorous, data-driven methodology, your teams learn to diagnose problems accurately and develop countermeasures that stick. This principle transforms how your people think, equipping them to solve problems permanently rather than repeatedly firefighting the same issues.
Principle 2: Customer Focus aligns every decision with what creates true value.
Your customers define value—not your internal processes or assumptions. When Customer Focus becomes a guiding principle, every function within your organization begins to view its work through the lens of customer value. This shift in perspective exposes waste, clarifies priorities, and ensures that your transformation efforts concentrate on what actually matters. The result is an organization that consistently delivers value, earns customer loyalty, and drives profitable growth.
Principle 3: Go See Yourself demands leaders engage directly with frontline realities.
Effective transformation cannot be managed from a conference room. Go See Yourself requires leaders to observe processes firsthand, engage with the people doing the work, and understand problems at their source. This principle builds trust, uncovers hidden obstacles, and ensures decisions are based on facts rather than filtered reports. When your leadership team embraces this discipline, it signals a cultural shift that empowers teams and accelerates meaningful change throughout the organization.
The Lean Focus Business System™ (LBS™) turns principles into practice.
The hundreds of Lean principles that drive a company’s Organizational Transformation—including the three above—come to life through the proven Tools contained within the six Sub-System of LBS™. These Tools represent systematic activities—workshops, process implementations, and structured improvements—that your teams will undertake side-by-side with our seasoned, senior-level practitioners. The Lean Focus Business System™ is truly among the most respected business systems in the world, providing repeatable, proven solutions that work across industries and countries.
Lean Focus has what it takes to facilitate a sustainable, long-lasting Organizational Transformation within your company.
These attributes include: a broad range of technical skillsets, a visionary mindset, and wide-ranging experience. Contact the senior-level LBS Experts today to schedule a full presentation. During this session, we’ll demonstrate exactly how Lean Focus will go beyond the surface to identify foundational problems, encourage new behaviors and ways of working amongst your staff, detail where we’ll begin in order to create quick impacts, and more. Call or message us today to begin.
Organizational Transformation is
Applicable to A Variety of Industries
AUTOMOTIVE
PRIVATE EQUITY
MEDICAL DEVICES
AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
TRANSPORTATION MGMT
INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY
HOME GOODS & FURNITURE
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES & TRUCKS
GENOMICS & PRECISION MEDICINE
TRADING & DISTRIBUTION
LIFE SCIENCES TOOLS
DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS
BIOPHARMACEUTICALS
BUILDING MATERIALS
TEST & MEASUREMENT
HVAC SYSTEMS
& MORE
A Selection of Organizations We’ve Helped Transform
Lean Focus Regional Leaders
DAMON BAKER
Lean Focus North America
+1 (630) 800-8519
[email protected]
About Damon
For over 25 years, Damon Baker has been implementing Lean in consulting, operations, commercial, Continuous Improvement, and GM & VP-level leadership roles for companies such as Danaher, HNI, Eaton, Argo Consulting, Experian, and Winegard.
Damon is currently a Board Director at Fieldpiece Instruments, Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego, and previously served as a Private Equity Operating Partner at Coltala Holdings, where he led the acquisition and value creation of numerous portfolio companies.
Trained by disciples of the Toyota Production System, he worked in a Shingo Prize-winning facility and is a Shingo Prize Examiner. Over his career, he has demonstrated hands-on leadership and facilitated 500+ kaizen events for 50 major corporations in 17 different countries.
Damon also led the North American Danaher Business System Office, where one of his mentored operating companies was nominated Most Improved Plant, and one of his factories won Best Plant Worldwide two years in a row.
Damon holds an MBA from St. Ambrose University and a Bachelor of Arts in Management and Marketing from Iowa Wesleyan University.
MANUEL JANS, PHD.
Lean Focus Europe
+49 173 2505762
[email protected]
About Manuel
Manuel has over 20 years of experience in Human Resource Management and Organizational Development. He has initially provided support for lean business transformations at all levels as a HR Consultant and later by leading customer-focused Talent and HR organizations in multi-national companies (up to $2.2B and 40+ locations). His assignments include various Talent leader roles at Danaher´s Water Quality Business and Head of HR positions in Pharma and Biotech. As an entrepreneur he has (co-)founded start-up businesses and professional networks. He is passionate about applying lean and agile thinking to build, improve and sustain impactful HR and talent practices, placing and developing key talent to drive the transformation journey, and building a lean leadership culture at all levels of the organization. Manuel holds a MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann) and Ph.D. in Business Administration (HR focus) from Essen University.
MICHAEL REINHOLT ANDERSEN
Lean Focus Nordic
+45 4030 3080
[email protected]
About Michael
Michael is the CEO of Lean Focus Nordic, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience. His career includes ~18 years at Danaher Corporation, where he held multiple executive roles, including General Manager/Managing Director Dentistry and Biotech businesses, as well as several VP Operations & Supply Chain and VP of Lean Business Transformation. In his role as Danaher Corporate Director, he was responsible for Danaher Business System implementation in EU. Most recently, he led Operations & Supply Chain of a $1B acute care diagnostics business, transforming it into one of Danaher’s most Lean-mature organizations.
An expert in driving transformational change, Michael specializes in implementing Lean practices and applying Lean business systems in large-scale organizations to enhance quality, delivery, innovation speed, and cost efficiency. He has successfully led cross-functional Lean transformations across diverse industries, cultivating high-performing, problem-solving cultures on a global scale.
Michael is renowned for driving radical business transformations and delivering impactful results. He excels in building enduring cultures of Continuous Improvement, anchored in collaboration, empowerment, and mutual respect.
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Organizational Transformation Case Studies
Case Study #1
Azenta: Transforming from Centralized Functions to a Customer-Centric Operating Company Model Challenge
30
Locations Worldwide
1,000+
Employees
Case Study #2
W.L. Gore & Associates: Transforming a Global Materials Science Leader from Centralized Functions to a Customer-Centric Operating Company Model
$5.3 Billion
Annual Revenue
13,000+
Associates
Organizational Transformation Client Testimonials
“In Lean Focus, we found a partner that can cover all of the different functions where we needed help. Not all firms have that breadth and depth of knowledge.”
“Lean Focus has served as a valuable extension of our team, using the Lean Focus Business System™ to enhance agility across critical business processes. Their long-term collaboration led to measurable improvements in reduced order entry time, increased OTIF performance, and a significant decrease in financial deductions stemming from process delays. More recently, they’ve supported us in identifying and recruiting key Lean talent, further strengthening our organizational flexibility for future growth.”
“I was confident that engaging key experts from Lean Focus would accelerate our efforts to build a culture of continuous improvement—one that embraces curiosity, rapid experimentation, data-driven learning, and problem solving. The people and the tools integrated seamlessly with our team to establish visual performance goals across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost. This partnership enabled me, as the leader, to drive greater predictability and flexibility as we scaled our organization.”
“Our operators, our sales force, our heads of R&D, our engineers, they spend time at GEMBA with Lean Focus individuals, helping us change that culture one person at a time, one group at a time, one training at a time. Allowing us to really drive performance in those businesses specifically around customers first. We’ve seen our quality improve, our on-time delivery improve, our transparency in the business improve, we’ve seen sales improved, and growth — which is the most important thing. Once we can continue to grow, we serve more customers, we can hire more employees, and we saw that change.”
“We’re progressing toward a vision of being the best place to work. ‘Lead through Lean’ is driving significant savings and efficiency.”
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