Toyota’s lasting contribution to the practice of management is that it created a unique synthesis of three fundamental approaches to improvement — the analysis of quality and the use of the...
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The Waste of management
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...
Read moreThree 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...
Read moreHow 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...
Read moreA Remarkable Story
The most surprising and rewarding thing last year was seeing how lean is transforming the patient journeys through what is thought to be the oldest hospital in Europe, founded on the 23rd of June...
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