The modern management system assumes that all enterprises striving to reach a positive economic trajectory must ensure high level of quality and product competitiveness, simultaneously losing their identification and reducing aspects that do not create any value for their customers. Using the example of the large production system of the Republic of Mari El, in the framework of system, process and normative methodological approaches, the conditions and principles of lean technologies application and the appreciation of operations performed on the basis of continuous improvement were determined. Within the framework of the kaizen projects implemented at the enterprise, the types of economic effects obtained were defined, their scale was assessed, and the associated risks were identified in the context of the PDCA cycle. The need for improving the mechanism of transmitting information signals in order to reduce transaction costs was established.