A Learning Week in Japan on Product Development and Beyond What – Overview (contents and structure) This first part of the tour mainly covers how manufacturing companies deal with lean product and...
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Product Development
UK Lean Summit 2015 – Lean Transformation: Developing Capability to Improve the Work
The theme for our 2015 Lean Summit is Lean Transformation – Developing the Capability to Improve the Work. This year we build upon the topic of Lean Transformation and have structured the event...
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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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25 Years of Lean
Jim Womack, John Shook and Daniel T Jones discuss the evolution and challenges facing the lean movement.11 videos – 70 minutes of wisdom – interview arranged by LEI and the Gemba Academy...
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Frontiers of Lean
It is eighteen years since the first western firm, Danaher in the USA, began its lean journey guided by disciples of Taiichi Ohno, the architect of lean at Toyota. Ten yeas ago Jim and I brought this...
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