Just imagine that instead of pursuing several hundred projects your organisation was able to focus everyone’s’ efforts on the vital three to five strategic objectives that would make the biggest...
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FMCG
Three Shingo Awards for LEA
The Lean Enterprise Academy has just won three Shingo Awards in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing lean thinking. At the Shingo Prize Awards Conference in Salt Lake City, USA on 20...
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How Lean is Your Organisation?
We are often asked to evaluate how lean an organisation is. How far it has progressed down its lean journey and what its next steps should be. An obvious place to start is to go and take a walk...
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Value Stream management
As we emerge from the recession and look ahead old ways of thinking and action will not be enough to meet two big challenges ahead. The first challenge is the growing impact of the web in opening up...
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Lean Summer Reading
In the last year or two we have learnt more and more about what makes Toyota’s lean management system so successful. The emerging literature grows by the day and it is hard to keep up with it all....
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