2023 marks 25 years of lean car retail research. This article reflects on some key learnings and the challenges...
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Tag: Value Streams
Supply Chain Disruption – Does lean hold the answer?
Introduction Shortages have been a common problem since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Remember the issues over PPE and hand sanitiser? The empty supermarket shelves? While customers ran out of...
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Value Stream Mapping in a Lean Transformation
We spend a lot of time visiting organisations and looking at work at the workplace. We’ve visited two workplaces recently that led us to conduct some reflection around how well organisations know...
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Lean Startup – Starting up, Growing up and Starting over
In recent years the concepts described by Daniel T Jones and Jim Womack in Lean Thinking have been adapted and translated into a host of environments. The Lean Startup movement introduced a new wave...
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Lean in Sales – Can Lean be applied to Sales?
Many attempts to implement Lean start by improving processes – mapping value streams in order to highlight waste and attempting to remove it. That’s all well and good but there are...
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