At the Lean Enterprise Academy we always try to push forward the frontiers of lean. There are two dimensions to this – taking lean to different environments and gaining new insight into...
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Learning by Doing Gemba Walks
Whilst all Lean Thinkers love to go to the gemba some work places are more enjoyable and more interesting than others. For several years I’ve been helping the Halfway group in its companies...
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Deploying Policy
There is no doubt that Policy Deployment (or hoshin kanri) is an integral part of any lean implementation. It’s a management process that aligns – both vertically and horizontally – an...
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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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