A New Year brings fresh focus to everyone’s activities. For the first time since 2018, the Lean Enterprise Academy is holding a Lean Summit in the UK. In person events are important. They inspire...
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Supply Chain
Why is Lean Management Important?
Introduction In his 2010 blog “What makes lean work?” Dan Jones discusses Toyota’s lasting contribution to the practice of management. The blog starts to explain why lean management is...
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Merry Christmas from LEA
The team at LEA wish all of you a Merry Christmas. Thank you all for your support in 2021. Let’s hope for a peaceful holiday period and best wishes for 2022. We’ve been steadily working...
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The “Check” stage in PDCA
An intrinsic part of lean thinking and practice is the scientific method – Plan, Do, Check, Act. At this time of year, our attention turns to “C” – the “Check” stage in PDCA. Reflection...
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The Lean Transformation Framework
In January 2014, John Shook shared the Lean Transformation Framework. This is the framework we have been developing to guide transformations with our partner companies, large and small, across a wide...
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