What does Lean Management mean?

Lean Management is a management strategy that is seeking reduction. Lean Management uses methods, procedures, and ways of thinking to optimize processes. It encourages a process-oriented business management, where all processes and workflows are exactly defined and coordinated to achieve the best possible efficiency.

Lean Management was developed on the basis of Lean Production. The goals of Lean Management are:

• avoid or minimize waste
• elimination of redundancies
• harmonizing of processes


The focal points of Lean Management are customer orientation and cost reduction. The basic idea is creating value without waste. For that goal, all activities in the value creation chain are perfectly aligned with each other, and redundant activities are prevented. Optimization happens from the customer’s perspective as well as from the business itself and its profitability.

Lean Management is not just an organizing principle for management and production, but for human resources as well. Staff members are integrated into the process optimization. This helps them reach their full potential and also motivates them to engage in finding ideas for further improvements.