““If Tesco wants to shrink costs and improve the reliability of the 85 percent of the value stream it does not directly control, it’s obvious that the upstream firms must collectively rethink their operating methods, and this is how Tesco and the Lean Enterprise Research Centre joined forces. While it is still in the early stages, the process of jointly conducting the analysis just described should gradually change Tesco, the bottler, the can maker, the cold roller, the hot roller, the smelter, and the bauxite miner from seven isolated adversaries into a team of collaborators, indeed into a lean enterprise.””
![“So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign up for it have been dropping out at a rate of more than 90%?” quote by Employee X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6fa/employee-x-236040_business_so-how-one-wonders-does-lean-i-the-hot-b_688047.jpg)
