What springs to mind when we hear the word lean? For many people I’m sure they firstly think about the lean manufacturing or lean operations area of their organization. It can be argued that this...
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Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit – Europe 2015
Join globally recognized experts, including John Toussaint from the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Michael Ballé from the Lean Institute France, James...
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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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Desert Island Lean: Key Lean Books
At the beginning of a New Year many of us define a list of things we want to accomplish over the next 12 months. Towards the end of 2014 two activities prompted me to think more deeply about what has...
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Planet-Lean.com interviews Daniel T Jones and James P Womack at the UK Lean Summit 2014
One of the highlights of our UK Lean Summit 2014 in Kenilworth last month was bringing the pioneers of Lean Thinking, James P Womack and Daniel T Jones (authors of The Machine that Changed the...
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