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Global Business Magazine Lean Thinking in Business

Read Professor Dan Jones' latest article for the Global Business Magazine. December 2011

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Lean Thinking Daniel Jones has been an editor on the International Commerce Review for several years.

The recently published 10 Years of New Knowledge digest contains a decade of breakthrough articles on business strategy, shopper marketing and supply chain in the Consumer Goods Business.
July 2010


PDF file Lean Thinking For the NHS
NHS Confederation Conference
June 2006

PDF file Lean Thinking For the NHS (with Alan Mitchell)
NHS Confederation Report
June 2006

PDF file Think Yourself Thin
Health Service Journal
April 2006

PDF file Lean Consumption (with Jim Womack)
Harvard Business Review
Mar 2005

PDF file The Value of Lean
CBI Voice
Jun 2003

PDF file Creating a Customer-Driven Supply Chain
ECR Journal
Winter 2002

PDF file Tesco.com: Delivering Home Shopping
ECR Journal
Summer 2001

PDF file Thinking Outside the Box
ECR Journal
Summer 2001

PDF file From Lean Production to Lean Enterprise (with Jim Womack)
Harvard Business Review
Mar 1994

PDF file Beyond Toyota (How to Root out Waste & Pursue Perfection) (with Jim Womack)
Harvard Business Review
Mar 1994

PDF file The Invisible Opportunity
International Commerce Review
Aug 2007

PDF file Building the Lean Supply Chain
Food Manufacture
Nov 2004

PDF file Lean Rapid Response Logistics
Manufacturing Computer Solutions
Nov 2004

PDF file Foresight Manufacturing 2020
Department of Trade and Industry
2000

PDF file The Egan Report: Rethinking Construction
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
1998

Presentations

PDF fileCan Ground Handling become Lean?
Ground Handling Conference, Vienna
29 Nov - 2 Dec 2010

PDF file Leading The Lean Enterprise
CMI, London, UK
Jan 2008

PDF file Where does Lean Healthcare Begin and End
2nd Redesigning Care Summit, Adelaide
Mar 2006

PDF file Implications of Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Healthcare Futures Network
Feb 2006

PDF file Why Responsiveness Matters
Lean Logistics Conference, Wroclaw, Poland
Feb 2006

PDF file Creating Lean Solutions
Manufacturer Live, Telford, UK
Sep 2005

PDF file The Challenge of Lean Consumption
Australian Industry Group, Melbourne, Australia
Mar 2005

PDF file Building a Lean Management System
Production Systems Conference, Stuttgart, Germany
Jun 2004

PDF file The Lean Strategic Challenge
UK-US Manufacturing Summit, Manchester, UK
Jun 2004

PDF file The Beginners Guide to Lean
The Manufacturer Live, Telford, UK
Sep 2003

PDF file The Evolution of Lean
European Manufacturing Strategy Summit, Dusseldorf, Germany
Oct 2006

PDF file Lean Consumption & Lean Thinking in Practice (with Alan Richards)
ECR Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
May 2006

PDF file How Lean Consumption Can Transform Retailing and Supply Chains
ECR Conference, Paris, France
Apr 2005

PDF file Building A Lean Business System
Lean Management Summit, Aachen, Germany
Nov 2004

PDF file New Frontiers of Lean Practice
AME Conference, Toronto, Canada
Oct 2003

PDF file Supply Chains of the Future
ECR Congress, Berlin, Germany
May 2003

Videos

We are starting to put a selection of videos on the website to help organisations on their lean journey. The videos are categorized based on your level of lean.

video Welcome to LEA (1.20 mins)
May 2008

video What is Lean? (6 mins)
May 2008

video Where to do Lean? (5.30 mins)
May 2008

video The Truth about Lean (7 mins)
May 2008

video Jumping To Solutions (5.30 mins)
May 2008

video Un-Scrambling Supply Chains (7 mins)
May 2008

video Re-Thinking IT (6 mins)
May 2008

video Reflections on Lean in Healthcare
May 2008

video Lean Consumption (29 mins)
May 2008

To view these videos you will need the latest version of Quicktime ( free download ).

Some videos may take a few minutes before they start playing. If you are experiencing any problems please email Lean Website Support stating your browser and quicktime version.