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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Beyond Legacy Assets and Mind-Sets: Lean Insights for the Digital Age
In our Lean Summits we are always focused on deepening our insights into the frontiers of Lean practice. We aim to provide real food for those seriously engaged in Lean transformations, which you...
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Developing Lean Transformations
In January 2014, John Shook shared the Lean Transformation Framework – the framework that we have been developing to guide transformations with our partner companies, large and small,...
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Lean Product and Process Development
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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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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