Back to where I started this article. Can Google remove the Uber app from Google Play? As a kind of street fighting tactic, but with a legal sauce? Note: assessment under Dutch law. That would be something like: your app encourages people to drive taxis without a permit and that is illegal in many countries. A legal act that is contrary to public order by content or scope is null and void.
The gist (ultimately enabling illegal snoring services) seems to me to be contrary to public order. As a rule, it is contrary to public order to oblige yourself to a legally prohibited service. The agreement between Google and Uber regarding the presence of the app in Google Play has therefore never existed and Google may remove the app from the Play Store tomorrow. Whether it will do so is another matter: the title of this column was somewhat suggestive but was formulated as a question
Lean success requires strong lean leadership. Many lean initiatives in organizations start out successfully, but later fail or even die a silent death. Leadership plays a major, perhaps even decisive, role in this. What are lessons learned?
More and more organizations are implementing lean. But after achieving the first quick wins , it is difficult for the organization to continue. How can further major savings be realized after the low hanging fruit ? How should lean be embedded in the organization? Advisor, professor and author Marcel van Assen saw this as the reason for his book 'Lean Leadership. Leadership of continuous improvement' (aff.). The book offers a strong theoretical framework of lean. Not only for leaders, but for everyone who is working with lean or wants to start. And is also very suitable for anyone who wonders why a lean implementation is canada whatsapp number so much more difficult than expected. Because lean does not always seem to succeed. One of the reasons for this is that there is a different understanding within the organization about what exactly lean is.
What is lean?
Lean is…
A method for reducing waste
A method to realize customer value
A culture of continuous improvement
A method for managing results
Companies that use only one or two of these definitions have a limited view of lean. And companies in which top management looks at lean in different ways also have a problem. Van Assen gives as an example a CFO who sees lean as a way to economize and save costs and a Head of HR who associates lean with developing a learning organization.
According to Van Assen, lean is a way of 'business life'. Isn't that a beautiful word? I've never used it that way, but just as you have your family life, you also have your business life. And lean is a way in which you lead that business life, set values and 'educate'. Van Assen states that lean is an improvement system, an improvement process and an improvement culture.