Lean is increasingly being recognised as a strategic resource for effective change in organisations. Lean thinking, when implemented correctly, requires effective ergonomics.Effective ergonomics is a necessary part of sustainable organisation. Lean analysis helps make potential ergonomics challenges visible so that these issues may be tackled properly, thus helping in harmonising workplace. It would also be proper to assert that ergonomics and lean manufacturing could go together to make sure that theirrespective goals and aims are achieved. Keeping people and thus ergonomics, helps assure that the company is not creating new wastes

Today, business process management (BPM) is a hot topic. But that has not always been like that – although the concept has been around for over 20 years. When I first moved from Indore to the Gujarat in 1996, I expected that every company we consulted would be discussing business processes and BPM. Familiar with the process orientation, I was certain that BPM was a hot topic in consulting business. However, this expectation proved to be an illusion. I still remember the first time I met the executives of a manufacturing company. We don’t know anything about BPM, we don’t want it and we don’t need it.