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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Tag: Demand Analysis
Three Shingo Awards for LEA
The Lean Enterprise Academy has just won three Shingo Awards in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing lean thinking. At the Shingo Prize Awards Conference in Salt Lake City, USA on 20...
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Four Curses
I breathed a huge sigh of relief the other day. We found a bookkeeper to manage the accounts for our rapidly growing business! Lizzie, my Operations Director, and I concluded that we were...
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Supply Chain Walks
One of the most interesting things I do is to take a walk through a complete supply chain. I did this twice last week. The first was from a vegetable grower through a consolidation warehouse to a...
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Is Lean So Hard?
We recently had a visit from the Managing Director of a small engineering firm seeking help on his lean journey. His first port of call was his local university, one of the most prestigious in the...
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