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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Management System
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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Management routines to build & support a Lean Transformation
Management Routines – Learning anything well and developing a skill usually takes practice and time to get it right. One of my biggest challenges in lean has been how to support leadership in...
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Save the Date: UK Lean Summit 24th & 25th October 2019
As part of our mission to help organisations with their Lean journeys the Lean Enterprise Academy has partnered with The Learning Trust to organise a Lean event around learning. The event takes place...
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Gemba Walk with Jim Womack at Toyota
The Toyota Lean Management Centre based at Toyota’s Deeside Engine Plant have supported our UK Lean Summit several times. Moving our event to Manchester for 2018 gave us a perfect opportunity...
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