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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8 Key Lean Learning Sessions
The theme for the 2014 Lean Summit is Practical Next Steps. The purposes of our annual summit are: To raise consciousness of the latest developments in Lean Thinking To provide insight into...
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LEA Door to Door Club member wins HSJ Best Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year
After much deliberation the Judges chose Calderdale and Huddersfield describing them as “an extremely impressive and rounded organisation where care has been improved by focusing not just on safety...
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What Makes Lean Work?
Toyota’s lasting contribution to the practice of management is that it created a unique synthesis of three fundamental approaches to improvement — the analysis of quality and the use of the...
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New Horizons for Lean Thinking
I often tell audiences that I collect questions, particularly ones I have to go away and think about. I also tell them I judge the quality of the audience by the quality of the questions they ask!...
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