Visiting the Gemba is essential. It is a privilege to be asked to go and see the inspiration people get from discovering new ways of working together and to hear their questions as they struggle to...
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Daniel T Jones
Beyond Legacy Assets and Mind-Sets: Lean Insights for the Digital Age
In our Lean Summits we are always focused on deepening our insights into the frontiers of Lean practice. We aim to provide real food for those seriously engaged in Lean transformations, which you...
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Four Lessons on Lean Healthcare
In the past decade, lean management principles have expanded to the healthcare industry, often with great results: Here I share a few lessons learned Although Lean was born in Toyota in the 1950s and...
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Two Inspiring Lean Transformation Examples
Lean is about helping organisations and individuals to learn to do things they could not previously do in order to meet the business challenges they face. The more problems they learn to solve the...
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What Lean Really Is?
The evolution of Toyota’s practices Daniel T Jones (1) Lean thinking and practice are generic versions of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the Toyota Way management system (2). Lean...
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