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Webinar

The Digital Storm and the End of Old You with CI&T

A virtual lean learning experience featuring CI&T.

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Article

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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Case Study

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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Case Study

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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Webinar

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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Webinar

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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Video

Building the Enabling Bureaucracy

A conversation with RJ Scaringe about creating the "Rivian Way."

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Article

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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Press Release

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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Press Release

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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Article

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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Article

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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Video

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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Article

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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Article

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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Article

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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