As Lean Leaders, we often question whether we have an environment which encourages Lean leadership capability and behaviours to engage and develop people. Peter Watkins and the team at GKN have been...
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Lean Enterprise Academy
Back to Basics: Problem Solving at Toyota
As Lean practitioners, we all know how to problem solve – don’t we? This is surely basic Lean stuff? Well, the answer may be that we think we do. But often, it isn’t done well and in many...
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Putting the Customer First using Lean Principles: The Saskatchewan Experiment
Dan Florizone, the Deputy Minister of Education for the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, talked about his experience of implementing Lean Principles across the Health Ministry. This is truly an...
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Live report from UK Lean Summit 2014
Dan Jones – Beyond Legacy Assets and Mind-sets Here we are at the LEA Summit 2014, with 200 Lean practitioners keen to discuss, think and learn. The gathering provides a useful space to step...
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LEA Door to Door Club member wins HSJ Best Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year
After much deliberation the Judges chose Calderdale and Huddersfield describing them as “an extremely impressive and rounded organisation where care has been improved by focusing not just on safety...
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