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Lean IT Workshop Helps CIOs, IT Managers, Software Developers, Understand Their Roles in Continuous Improvement Efforts
Steve Bell, co-author of Lean IT, is the workshop facilitator.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces 19 Lean Management Workshops for Chicago
The curriculum of 19 workshops is aimed at continuous improvement professionals, managers, and executives in manufacturing and service companies who are implementing lean business principles.
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Lean Leadership Skills Addressed at Lean Management Workshops in Seattle
The 11 training sessions from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute also cover problem solving, value-stream mapping, strategy deployment, and basic lean concepts.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Opens Registration for Coaching Webinar on May 22, 2014
The complimentary educational webinar will explain two basic types of lean management coaching: coaching for correction and coaching for development.
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New Lean Management Novel Explains How to Develop Business by Developing People
Lead With Respect shows how developing people’s capabilities as problem solvers is the ultimate sign of workplace respect and a decisive business advantage.
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Lean Enterprise Institute’s 2015 Lean Transformation Summit Will Deliver Inspiration as Well as Practical Information
In a unique presentation format, executives will describe improvement strategies, followed by change agents describing how-to details.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces Fall and Winter Training Dates, Locations, and Subjects
The training classes set for November 2015 through March 2016 will help managers and executives at manufacturing and service companies launch and sustain lean transformations.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces Keynote Lineup of “Game-Changers” for Annual Summit
Executives and change agents from solar energy, IT, and restaurant businesses will reveal how their lean transformations are disrupting industries.
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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Wins Sloan Management Review Award for Best Article on Change and Organizational Development
Winning article on culture change lessons from NUMMI should be “required reading” for anyone concerned with corporate culture change, according to SMR.
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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Joins Summit on “Manufacturing's Next Chapter"
Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook addresses "Manufacturing's Next Chapter," a business summit organized by The Atlantic to bring together experts from business, government, and…
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Lean Transformation Summit Reveals Keys to “Lean for the Long Term”
A unique group of companies, including two that have sustained lean transformations since the mid-1990s, will reveal how they are developing lean longevity at the…
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Lean Transformation Summit Features a Job Shop’s Long Lean Journey
A unique group of companies, including Lantech, which has sustained a lean transformation since the early 1990s, will reveal how they are developing “lean for…
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Lean Transformation Summit Highlights Lean Efforts at 2 Aerospace Companies
A unique group of organizations, including Goodrich Aerostructures and a FedEx Express aircraft maintenance facility, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long…
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Lean Transformation Summit Spotlights Aircraft Maintenance Facility
A unique group of organizations, including the FedEx Express Aircraft Maintenance facility in Los Angeles, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long…
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Lean Supply Chains and Logistics Are Subjects of a Free Webinar
Learn the 8 guiding principles for turning supply "chains" into smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment.
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Lean Transformation Summit Reveals “Frontiers and Fundamentals”
Lean management efforts at Ford Motor Co, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Acme Alliance are featured at the annual conference.
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Lean Management Book, Gemba Walks, by James Womack Challenges the Prevailing Management System
The latest book from the researcher who led the team that coined “lean production>” explores why lean management is better than the currently dominant management…
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Value Stream Mapping
Value-stream mapping (VSM) is diagraming every step involved in the material and information flows needed to bring a product from order to delivery. It is…
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