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How to Improve Your Product Development Process

Members of LEI's Lean Product and Process Development Learning Group share their successful strategies.

by Matthew Savas

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Board Responsibilities and the Lean Management System

"A board needs to go far beyond checking performance measurements and actually hold senior leaders accountable for management systems and behaviors," writes Steve Leuschel. "As…

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How Lean Can Help You Go Green

How to use lean thinking and practices to create sustainable business practices.

by Gary Cundill and Rose Heathcote

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A3 Thinking Roundup

Following last week's immensely popular Posts on the origins of A3 thinking, LEI Senior Editor Tom Ehrenfeld compiles a collection of the very best reads…

by Tom Ehrenfeld

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Chief Engineer: the Ultimate Working Together Leadership Role

Discover why the chief engineer role is the pinnacle of leadership in product development, demanding exceptional communication, vision, and the ability to inspire diverse teams…

by James Morgan, PhD

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From Concept to Perfection: Toyota's GD³ Method Sets a New Standard in Product Quality

The innovative GD3 method can help you rethink product development to improve customer satisfaction, boost cost-effectiveness, avoid recalls, and prevent catastrophic failures.

by James Morgan, PhD and Matthew Savas

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Lean 'n Food: Rethinking the Retail Food Industry

In this clip from a recent LEI Webinar, Haven Hot Chicken co-founder Etkin Tekin explains the process of working through the guest experience and how…

by Lean Leaper

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Who Owns Your A3? (Part One)

LEI Director of Strategy and Operations Mark Reich shares how he learned a key lesson from his time at Toyota: always ask who owns the…

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Nine Tips to Better Process Development

Achieve exceptional results with your next product launch. Master nine proven techniques for designing successful, waste-free processes.

by Eric Ethington and Matt Zayko

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Becoming Lean Means Reorganizing Around Value Streams

After successfully implementing lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries, former Wiremold CEO Art Byrne identifies this mistake as the biggest…

by Art Byrne

Case Study

Sustain Your Lean Business System with a “Golden Triangle”

When medical device maker Phase 2 fought off an overseas challenge by meeting the global price, margins took a big hit. With help from customer…

by Chet Marchwinski

Press Release

Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that Founder James P. Womack Will Step Down as CEO and Chairman, Succeeded by Senior Advisor John Shook

LEI Senior Advisor John Y. Shook will succeed Womack as CEO on Sept. 27, 2010, as planned. Womack will remain involved with LEI as a…

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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that John Shook Is Its New Chairman and CEO, Succeeding Founder James P. Womack

Shook succeeds Founder James Womack as planned.

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Background: What Is the Lean Enterprise Institute?

A summary of lean managment and the Lean Enterprise Institute's background and mission

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Helen Zak named President and COO of the Healthcare Value Leaders Network

Long-time LEI COO now heads the nonprofit co-sponsored by LEI and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and focused on improving healthcare delivery with lean…

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An Open and Honest Culture at Thedacare, a Lean Story

In this video, John Toussaint, a co-author of the LEI publication On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, talks about…

by John Toussaint

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Patients First (Part II)

Writing in the Huffington Post, Karl Ohaus, a co-author of Perfecting Patient Journeys, poses 7 questions to ask at the start of fixing a healthcare…

by Karl Ohaus