When Jim Womack and Dan Jones launched Lean Thinking back in 1996 a whole chapter was devoted to creating “An Action Plan” to help leaders apply lean thinking to transform...
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David Brunt
April News – Lean Community
Everyone at LEA hopes that our lean community, your families, friends and colleagues continue to be safe. As I write this letter we are still in the eye of the Covid19 crisis. In our working lives,...
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Spaghetti Charts & Physical Distancing
The advent of the coronavirus has created a new dimension to the planning and delivery of safe processes. The article looks at physical distancing and the creative solutions we need to go back to...
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Toyota Becoming a Mobility Company
Toyota is shifting towards a mobility company in this "once in a century period of profound transformation." In a message from President, Akio Toyoda, the company communicates that the automobile is...
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Lean Supply Chains & Risk
Ensuring the safety of people during the Corona Virus is the most important issue, but it is also affecting business. Yesterday JCB, the UK maker of yellow diggers, announced it is cutting production...
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