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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Transformation
Lean Summit 2014: Building a Lean Management System for Healthcare and the Public Sector
At the Lean Enterprise Academy we always try to push forward the frontiers of lean. There are two dimensions to this – taking lean to different environments and gaining new insight into...
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What Lean Really Is?
The evolution of Toyota’s practices Daniel T Jones (1) Lean thinking and practice are generic versions of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the Toyota Way management system (2). Lean...
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What will happen after you leave?
The Lean Edge: What would you do if you were a CEO and you tried lean the right way and were passionate about it but you seemed to be failing at every turn getting all your stakeholders angry?...
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The Benefits of Our Action Research with Auto Retail
In 1998 Dan Jones asked a couple of his researchers to understand if and how Lean thinking can be applied to auto retail. Since then we have worked with car dealers on a variety of projects and now...
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