With just three weeks until this year’s Lean Summit I’ve been looking through the 2014 delegate list to see who is attending. It looks like we will have a great international event. So far we...
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Learning from Applying Lean in IT
It is fair to say that over the last quarter of a century the term lean has spread to almost every sector. In the early days of implementation the manufacturing companies visiting Japan to see what...
Read moreLearning 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...
Read moreThe 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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The theme for the 2014 Lean Summit is Practical Next Steps. The purposes of our annual summit are: To raise consciousness of the latest developments in Lean Thinking To provide insight into...
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