Creativity

Creativity is the ability to break the mold of traditional thinking.

Most people think of creativity as the ability to come up with new ideas. But creativity is also exhibited when people use existing ideas or information in new ways.

Creativity is very important to Lean. It is easy to spend money to make improvements. It is much harder to solve problems on a budget. It takes creative thought.

Lean seeks to tap into employees’ creativity. In fact, it is so important to Lean that unused creativity is often looked at as the 8^th waste.