Lean Articles

Every month Dan Jones sends an 'e-Letter' to members of the Lean Community ...

To help you find the right articles for your lean transformation we have grouped Dan's e-Letters into the following topics - Management, Supply Chains, Consumption, Lean in General, Healthcare, Service, Autos.

Lean Management

One Third of the Way to Lean? June 2007

Crossing the Lean Threshold March 2007

Asking Questions December 2006

Learning To Act October 2006

Value Steam Management September 2006

Developing Problem Solvers March 2006

Process Leadership November 2005

Beyond the Lean Tool Box June 2004

The Tale of Two Companies August 2003

Lean Supply Chains

From Lean Supply Chains to Value Streams May 2007

Little and Often February 2007

Too Much Transparency June 2006

Four Curses April 2006

Breaking Through To Flow January 2006

Supply Chain Walks August 2005

Taking Responsibility for Pull June 2005

Beyond Squeezing Margins February 2005

Rapid, Reflexive, Replenishment January 2005

Planning For Flow December 2004

Lean Consumption

Wasting Customers Time January 2007

Right-sized Technologies August 2006

Broken Business Models September 2005

Frontiers of Lean July 2005

Serving Consumers May 2005

Going To Market April 2005

Lean From The Top March 2005

Eliminating Failure Demand August 2004

Learning to See Demand July 2004

Lean in General

Changing Reasons for Going Lean November 2006

Lean Lessons for 2006 December 2005

Competing with China October 2005

Is Lean So Hard? November 2004

Beyond Cost Cutting October 2004

How Lean Are You? April 2004

The Beginners Guide to Lean November 2003

Meeting The Challenge From Turkey October 2003

We have been (Lean) Thinking May 2003

Why LEA? December 2002

Healthcare Articles

Making Healthcare Lean April 2007

Leaning Healthcare May 2006

The Potential of Lean Healthcare February 2007

3rd Lean Healthcare Forum - The Next Steps . . . September 2006

Next Steps in Lean Healthcare August 2006

Lean Thinking For the NHS June 2006

Lean Healthcare May 2006

Leaning Healthcare May 2006 

Think Yourself Thin April 2006

Healthcare e-letter April 2006

Where does Lean Healthcare Begin and End March 2006

Implications of Lean Thinking for Healthcare February 2006

Lean Service

Eliminating Failure Demand August 2004

Lean Allies in the Office February 2004

Lean Beyond Manufacturing January 2004

Lean in Autos

No More Lean Excuses February 2006

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We have a limited number of hard copies of the GCI Report 2016: The Future Value Chain available. If you would like a copy please email info@leanuk.org for more information.


Dan Jones presentation - The Evolution of Lean from the European Manufacturing Strategy Summit in Dusseldorf is available under Presentations


If you attended the recent ECR Conference in Stockholm you will be interested in:

Lean Consumption and Lean Thinking in Practice (Dan Jones and Alan Richards' presentation)

The Magic of Leveled Scheduling (article by Alan Mitchell)

Lean Solutions (book)

Breaking Through To Flow (workbook)

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