Leading Lean Projects

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Lean Projects- SINTEF

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Executive summary
Various leadership style and there uses as well as one particular style which has to be
followed by the SINTEF to develop their growth will be explained in this report. This report
will mainly focus on the SINTEF organization. The company has carried out various
numbers of projects on a daily basis. SINTEF is one of the most independent research
company which has approximately 2000 employees. Various tools and techniques should be
implemented by human capital management, sales, and marketing, procurement and
warehousing department of the SINTEF to enhance their growth.
An individual can run a team if he or she is having the quality of leadership. The
company have been helping the society in providing the various solutions from the period of
the 60 years. This company serves customers globally. This report will focus on the
democratic, strategic and various other leadership styles from which the SINTEF Company
will implement one of the leadership styles.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
SINTEF- Leading Lean Project.................................................................................................5
Strategic leadership style........................................................................................................6
Cross-cultural leadership style...............................................................................................7
Laissez-faire leadership..........................................................................................................8
Democratic leadership............................................................................................................9
SINTEF leadership Style- Democratic Leadership style.........................................................10
Characteristics of the member in the team...............................................................................12
Self- Aware..........................................................................................................................12
Clear decision.......................................................................................................................12
Open doors and clear communication..................................................................................12
Collaboration spirit...............................................................................................................13
Not dependent......................................................................................................................13
Patience................................................................................................................................13
Tools/techniques that could be implemented in various departments of SINTEF...................13
Flow Chart............................................................................................................................13
Check sheet..........................................................................................................................14
Cause and effect diagram.....................................................................................................15
Pareto chart...........................................................................................................................15
Control chart.........................................................................................................................16
Scatter diagram.....................................................................................................................17

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Histogram.............................................................................................................................18
Conclusion................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
(SINTEF, 2019).
SINTEF (Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning) participates as a research
partner in openly funded research plans, both at the national and to a large degree at the EU
stage, so they aim to contribute the value formation and improved competitiveness among
the private-public segments (Carlile, 2013).
SINTEF, which was established in 1950 and its headquarter is in Trondheim, Norway.
This is one of the largest independent research organization situated in Europe. Contract
research has been conducted by the SINTEF which is a multidisciplinary organization. The
company applies there multidisciplinary approach in there worldwide projects from the stage
of the small test, expert evaluation, and verification projects to the stage of the multinational
research programs with various types of the partner.
This company helps in proving public financing to its customers by collaborating with
the universities and institutes and start-ups.
SINTEF faces very ethical challenges, in their business where they contact with the
clients and many business partners.
SINTEF ethical guidelines help them in unethical situations. The guidelines of ethical
conduct are kept in mind every year to make sure that SINTEF stays up to date with
developments (Ose, 2013).
Lean is the global philosophy which helps in the communication in the company and
types of the tools which are needed to run the organization. This helps in balancing the

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philosophical viewpoints and improvements at operational levels. By implementing leans
system in the organization, the company can achieve success. SINTEF has wide experience
in line management and management of Lean procedures (Chiarini, 2012).
Lean has various meaning due to which misconception regarding its meaning has been
generated in the organization. Lean aim is to lowering the resource and increasing the value.
In other words, it can be said that Lean is to capitalize value by minimizing leftover.
This report will be going to focus on the different types of potential style that can be
implemented by the project manager, the most beneficial style that can be implemented in
the SINTEF organization, various characteristic of the individual to lead a team, and various
kinds of tools and techniques which can help the SINTEF department in improving their
efficiency.
SINTEF- Leading Lean Project
SINTEF is the organization which performs contract basic research and develop the
areas of the health, information and communication technology, petroleum and energy, and
construction of building for the wide range of the Norwegian and international industry
consumers. As per the SINTEF case study, it has been noticed that Agile is one of the best
practice to implement lean principles. Interaction between the stakeholders is of much
importance, which is facilitated by the SINTEF. This also promotes open innovation
processes. Agile practices are generally seen within the IT department, due to which there is
a need of the many leadership styles, which can help in developing the growth of the
business (Korsvold, 2010).
There are numerous kinds of leaderships which can be adopted by the project
manager.