A management system is the framework of processes and procedures used to ensure that an organization can fulfill all tasks required to achieve its objectives. A lean management system consists of the discipline, daily practices, and tools that you need to establish and maintain a persistent, intensive focus on process. It is this process focus that sustains and extends lean implementations.

Peter M. Senge, is an influential systems thinker from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization published in 1990 and a revised edition published by Broadway Business in 2006. In Chapter 4, “The Laws of the Fifth Discipline,” Senge suggests 11 systems laws that help us understand systems better. The laws are:

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