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How to Engage Everyone to Create a “Continuous Innovation Machine”

In a presentation to hundreds of engineers at a Fortune 100 manufacturer, Jim Morgan, an engineering PhD and former product development executive, explained what distinguishes…

by James Morgan, PhD

Article

Let's Celebrate Work

Is your work meaningful or menial? LEI Senior Advisor John Shook challenges us to aim to make all work meaningful by building our businesses based…

by John Shook

Article

Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?

The Cleveland Clinic's lean management and operating system helped it handle the challenges arising from the pandemic. Here are several key principles they learned that…

by John Shook and Lisa Yerian, MD

Case Study

Putting Lean Principles in the Warehouse

While lean principles and practices have been widely adopted in manufacturing over the last couple of decades, their use in the warehouse and distribution center…

by Doug Bartholomew

Article

Lean Transformational Leadership Webinar - Follow-up Q & A and Reading List

During the Transformational Leadership webinar, many of you asked for the list of related books and articles that presenter Jim Luckman cited. He has provided…

by Jim Luckman

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Visual Replenishment Delivers for Zingerman’s

How an online grocery business meets pandemic-related demand increases while maintaining a safe work environment.

by Karen Gaudet

Article

How Stalwart Lean Leadership and Classic Lean Practices Yield Operational and Clinical Excellence

Organizations can achieve the seemingly impossible when they have steadfast lean leadership, a sharp focus on purpose, and experience applying "classic" lean thinking and practice.…

by Alice Lee

Article

Follow-up Q & A to the Webinar "Integrating Leader Standard Work with Visual Management Tools”

This webinar was one of our most popular and highly rated. From among the hundreds of questions that we received during the webinar, we selected…

by Joe Murli

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Helpful Coaching? Part One: Who Says What’s Helpful?

David Verble, a lean practitioner and Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member, offers advice for what kind of coaching is helpful for people with problem solving…

by David Verble

Article

How the Study Phase Helps You Create More Value for Your Customers and Less Drama for Your Development Teams

A product development team volunteered to pilot applying lean product and process development principles -- and discovered how critical "understanding before you execute" is to…

by John Drogosz, PhD

Article

Insights and Advice from a Lean Accounting Leader

Why and how to get started integrating lean thinking and practice into accounting and finance at your organization.

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Transcript for WLEI Podcast: Designing the Future, An interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and former COO Jim Morgan

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Getting Started with Lean Accounting

Before your organization gets started with lean accounting, the accounting function must first expand its thinking beyond transactions and into practices. Here's how.

by Nick Katko

Article

Unique Philanthropy Does Well by Doing Good

An internship program enables students to attain real-world lean management experience while helping community service organizations reach more people.

by Patricia Panchak

Article

Ask Art: How Do You Align Incentives for a Lean Turnaround?

A veteran lean leader offers practical strategies for incentivizing employees during a transition to lean management.

by Art Byrne

Article

Learning to Solve Problems By... Wait for It... Solving Problems

A team learns what matters when it comes to problem-solving using lean thinking and practices.

by Josh Howell

Article

Operations IS Your Customer

Discover how redefining operations as the primary customer of engineering can transform product development, enhance collaboration, and drive unprecedented improvements in quality and efficiency.

by Steve Shoemaker 

Article

Cultivating Intuition at the Gemba

Our trainers conditioned us to water the seed of experience and use it not just to fire-fight but rather be more predictive and value add…

by Ernie Richardson and Tracey Richardson

Article

When Is The Best Time To Implement Profit Sharing?

Orry Fiume argues that when businesses reopens, there are many things that will be different; and that when they do it will be time to…

by Orest (Orry) Fiume

Podcast

32. Coachable: A Model Story, Coaching Work Improvement

An excellent study in masterful coaching on the floor where the work happens.

by Bryant Sanders