The purpose or goal of Lean efforts could be cost reduction, shortened lead time, improve customer satisfaction, removing frustrations, improve quality, etc. The specific goal doesn’t matter, but having consensus for the goal does, which enables improvement efforts to be aligned towards meeting the goal. The goal mattering to the people doing the work is…

What ways are we, as a lean community, contributing to society? In what ways should we be? What problems do we need to solve?