The Power of Lean Process: Increase profits, delight customers and improve your company's cultureOperations is at the core of service delivery and meeting Customer demands and is usually the first function startup companies create. As a company grows, however, management attention must focus on nonoperational areas, such as sales growth and finance, for good reason. What I've experienced is that in many companies, focus does not always return to operations at the level a company needs for it to be successful. As a company grows rapidly, a failure