The diverse lean areas of application in business life

Abstract

Today, lean has become an extremely popular field of research. Nothing proves its popularity better than the fact that it is now used not only by production companies, but also by service companies, and its appearance in office environments is even more common. Its domestic and international literature is constantly expanding. Lean is an extremely complex field of science, as it is made up of many fields: innovation, change management, organizational development, process management, quality management, knowledge management. In our publication, we describe the basic concepts of the affected areas and their connection to lean management.

Keywords

• lean
• continuous improvement
• innovation
• process management
• organizational development
• knowledge management
• quality management