Any seasoned Lean Thinker will have heard or used the phrase, “What problem are you trying to solve?” But is the art of problem solving getting lost amongst the noise of the numerous...
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Manufacturing
May News – Lean Community
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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How will lean shape the post Covid World?
Our Chairman, Dan Jones joined WLEI Podcast Host Tom Ehrenfeld for a chat about the potential role of Lean as we move into and beyond this current age. Dan chatted about the key role lean can play in...
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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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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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