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2024 Lean Summit Recap

LEI's Lean Summit showcased how leaders leverage lean for innovation from AI-powered healthcare to US manufacturing's revival.

by Matthew Savas

Press Release

Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Will Address Iowa Lean Consortium Businesses Oct. 2, 2012, on Culture Change

John Shook, a nationally-recognized lean management expert and business book author, will talk about how companies can create problem-solving cultures as part of a two-day…

Press Release

Innovators Explore How to Leverage Product Development for Enterprise Change

The theme of the recent 2019 Designing the Future Summit was how to use lean product and process development for widespread organizational change. The third…

Podcast

Preventing Problems by Thinking Upstream: A Talk with Author Dan Heath

“We should shift more of our energies upstream personally, organizationally, nationally, and globally. We can and we should stop dealing with the symptoms of problems…

by Lean Enterprise Institute

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Lean Digital Transformation

Discover how the application of lean principles can improve entire corporate ecosystems to deliver digital services and products that customers love at scale and at…

by Bruno Guicardi

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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…

Book

The Lean Bakery

Food should be fresh. Yet we produce it in big batches. If fast-moving, small batch, one-piece flow can work with car parts, why can’t it…

by Juan Antonio Tena and Emi Castro

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Leadership Q&A: Robert Chapman, chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: “Guiding Principles of Leadership”

Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. CEO Robert Chapman describes how the company's Guiding Principles of Leadership merge with lean thinking at this $1.1 billion global manufacturer of…

by Chet Marchwinski

Podcast

What’s the Problem?: Andrew Lingel Discusses Transforming a Family Business through Knowledge, Grit, and Outrage

In this What's the Problem? podcast with Matt Savas, President Andrew Lingel of United Plastic Fabricating shares how he helped lead a transformation in this…

by Matthew Savas

Podcast

Lean's Role in Labor Shortages and the Supply Chain

LEI leaders talk about recent blame thrown toward Lean in the supply chain, the rising labor shortage, NFT's, and more.

by Josh Howell, Matthew Savas and Richard Vellante

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Legal Sea Foods’ New Problem-Solving Philosophy Brings a Sea Change

LEI Senior Coach Josh Howell tells Restaurant Business magazine how the application of lean management principles developed by carmaker Toyota,  led to faster service and…

Press Release

Lean Manufacturing and Company Culture Change Workshops in Los Angeles

The workshops include 5S and value-stream mapping along with Sustainable Lean Culture and Kaizen: the Culture of Continuous Improvement, plus many more.

Press Release

Lean Culture Change Workshop Added to the Summer/Fall Schedule at the Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute

The newest workshop, Improvement Kata, is one of five summer and fall sessions designed to deliver practical, how-to answers in plain language about basic and…

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Redefining Work

We need to think about redefining work. Until we – anyone who wishes to bring about organizational change – redefine the actual value-creating work of…

by John Shook

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Working Hard...For One Minute

Anyone who doubts the ability of their people to work hard in enacting change--or who blames problems on their "people" should look hard in the…

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Alice Lee on the Challenges and Rewards of Applying Lean to Healthcare

Alice Lee, VP of Business Transformation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses BIDMC's unique application of lean thinking and practice to healthcare.…

by Lean Enterprise Institute and Alice Lee

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Smitten Engineers or Love at First Sight of a Solution?

Entrepreneur Tyler Schilling has felt the pain of engineering heartbreak – falling in love early with a solution only to realize later in the project…

by Chet Marchwinski and Tyler Schilling

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5 Skills to Strengthen Your Coaching Practice

As we look ahead to this month's coaching summit, here are 5 actions you can take now to become a better coach, change agent, and…

by Lex Schroeder