What springs to mind when we hear the word lean? For many people I’m sure they firstly think about the lean manufacturing or lean operations area of their organization. It can be argued that this...
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Lean Principles
Four Lessons on Lean Healthcare
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...
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Putting 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...
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Who 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...
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