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The Digital Storm and the End of Old You with CI&T
A virtual lean learning experience featuring CI&T.
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Can Lean Boost Sales?
Dear Gemba Coach: Every one says that lean is not just about cost cutting. But I fail to see how lean techniques can influence the…
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For Athletic Shoe Company, the Soul of Lean Management Is Problem Solving
When it began a lean transformation in 2003, New Balance, the only athletic shoe manufacturer that still makes some products in the U.S., focused on…
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To Successfully Apply Lean Thinking in Distribution, Go to Where the Action Is!
Two years after its first kaizen workshop, Plumbers Supply Company has made significant progress toward a lean business conversion. Starting with daily management walkabouts and…
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Lean at Amazon.com: Reconciling Lean and High-Tech
Contrary to what some people think, adopting lean in a high-technology environment isn’t just possible; it’s essential. Just ask Marc Onetto. The former SVP of…
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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…
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Building the Enabling Bureaucracy
A conversation with RJ Scaringe about creating the "Rivian Way."
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Follow-up Q & A to the Webinar "Big Company Disease: What is it? and Why Should I Care?”
The following questions represent the most-asked ones that we couldn't get to during the webinar “Big Company Disease” with presenter Pascal Dennis.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Workshops in Cambridge, MA,Teach New Lean Leadership Behaviors
The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will run a series of six workshops at its office in Cambriddge, MA, in the first quarter of 2010 for…
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New Lean Logistics and Supply Chain Workbook Explains How to Increase Value While Reducing Costs
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, the latest workbook from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, shows how lean thinking converts “supply chains” into swift, smoothly flowing…
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Enduring Lessons from The Birth of Lean
Lean was never conceived as a new and comprehensive system designed to replace conventional enterprise. Rather, as shown in The Birth of Lean, it evolved…
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Lean Business-IT Integration, Part Two: Obstacles to Value-Stream Transformation
In this, the second of a five part series, LEI faculty member Steve Bell offers a framework to help overcome the common obstacles to a…
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Follow-up Q & A to the Webinar “Getting to Everyday Improvement: How to Connect the Science and Culture of Problem Solving”
A follow-up Q&A with presenters Judy Worth and Beau Keyte for the Lean Enterprise Institute's webinar on Getting to Everyday Improvement.
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Talking About Lean: How Leaders Support Improvement With Words and Actions
In this comprehensive series of reflections, Lean Coach David Verble examines how the way managers and leaders talk to employees (and to each other) can…
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Understanding Lean Transformation
Learn the critical dimensions of transformation with the Lean Transformation Framework, a proven, systematic approach toward achieving a lean transformation by resolving problems at every…
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Understanding the Fundamentals of Value-Stream Mapping
This overview explains the essential elements of this powerful lean practice.
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8 Steps to Radical Quality Improvement
An uncompromising quality improvement zealot shares a favorite method for radical quality advances, gleaned from decades of experience improving facilities in the U.S., Europe, Asia,…
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Creating Value or Shifting Wealth?
How do we judge the progress of the Lean Movement? One critical indicator is our success in extending lean thinking to new industries and activities.…
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