In the past decade, lean management principles have expanded to the healthcare industry, often with great results: Here I share a few lessons learned Although Lean was born in Toyota in the 1950s and...
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Planet-Lean.com interviews Daniel T Jones and James P Womack at the UK Lean Summit 2014
One of the highlights of our UK Lean Summit 2014 in Kenilworth last month was bringing the pioneers of Lean Thinking, James P Womack and Daniel T Jones (authors of The Machine that Changed the...
Read morePutting the Customer First using Lean Principles: The Saskatchewan Experiment
Dan Florizone, the Deputy Minister of Education for the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, talked about his experience of implementing Lean Principles across the Health Ministry. This is truly an...
Read moreWho is Attending the 2014 UK Lean Summit?
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...
Read moreLearning 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...
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