The Lean Edge: What would you do if you were a CEO and you tried lean the right way and were passionate about it but you seemed to be failing at every turn getting all your stakeholders angry?...
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Year: 2014
The Benefits of Our Action Research with Auto Retail
In 1998 Dan Jones asked a couple of his researchers to understand if and how Lean thinking can be applied to auto retail. Since then we have worked with car dealers on a variety of projects and now...
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Lean Leadership
At our 2013 Lean Summit we welcomed Art Byrne, architect and leader of numerous Lean Transformations such as that undertaken at Wiremold – told in Chapter 7 of Lean Thinking – as well as...
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8 Key Lean Learning Sessions
The theme for the 2014 Lean Summit is Practical Next Steps. The purposes of our annual summit are: To raise consciousness of the latest developments in Lean Thinking To provide insight into...
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Kaizen events: good thing or bad thing for Lean Transformation?
The Lean Edge: “Kaizen events: good thing or bad thing? In what cases do kaizen events help and when do they hinder? How to best use kaizen events to leverage results and support the lean...
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