The article reinvents Lean values, principles and actions, wrongly attacking "cost center" attitude as the source of the quality problem. Lean paradigm values

The article reinvents Lean values, principles and actions, wrongly attacking "cost center" attitude as the source of the quality problem. Lean paradigm values flow efficiency and quality at the cost of resource efficiency (think mass production). You can balance somewhere between depending where what your business strategy is, but it is important to understand that maxing out flow efficiency and resource efficiency is impossible. Saying that cost center approach is wrong, is misleading and targetting the wrong problem. There's a tradeoff there, it's not good vs bad. There's a good book I can recommend for people interested in Lean and its position vs mass paradigm: "This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox".