From one of the Lean mailing lists. It was posted in the context of Lean adoption, but seems to apply to just about anything…
I believe there is only one pre-condition. The leadership of the company must believe “The status quo is no longer an acceptable way of doing business”. […] One of our associates gave me that quote. She was asked what lean meant, and that was the reply.[…]The rest is just technical details.
So right. So many organisations think that the solution is about more management. “Management solution” is a classic oxymoron (but thereagain, in software organisations, so is “effective leadership”).
Thanks for pointing that out, very timely.