I've been asked this question several times, so I thought I'd share my answer here:
The short answer is no.
The longer answer is that Lean Compliance is a new practice area of Lean specifically for compliance, created in 2017 by Raimund Laqua, PMP, P.Eng. (Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance Consulting, Inc.).
Lean Compliance is a methodology designed to overcome the challenges introduced by old-factory thinking, reactive behaviours, and traditional training, inspection, and audits as the means to ensure obligations are met.
The Lean Compliance approach helps organizations eliminate compliance waste, leverage existing talent and capabilities, adopt proactive behaviours, establish operational programs and systems, and engage in continuous improvement to establish a virtuous cycle that effectively contends with modern-day risk, performance, and outcome-based obligations.
While the practice of Lean Compliance is new, many of its principles come from existing areas of practice, including Lean Management, Lean Startup, Lean TPS, Engineering, Systems Thinking, Cybernetics, Promise Theory, Uncertainty and Risk Management, Performance Management, and Ethics.
This may seem overwhelming; however, so is designing a car. That’s why we have engineers!
The good news is that driving a car is much easier and something everyone can learn.
It is this reason that we created "The Proactive Certainty Program."
This is a four-step process that every organization can easily adopt to transform compliance from procedural or paper-based compliance to operational compliance using the principles of Lean Compliance.
The question you need to answer is:
Are you ready to learn to drive compliance towards better outcomes?