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Perfecting Patient Journeys, Lean Healthcare How-To Guide, Receives Prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award
Perfecting Patient Journeys is a how-to guide to lean healthcare for healthcare leaders.
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John Shook, LEI CEO, Will Keynote the Third Annual Lean Coaching Summit
The conference agenda is designed to let attendees learn and then practice new lean coaching skills.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Appoints James Morgan, PhD, as Senior Advisor for Product Development
In the new post, Morgan, a former global engineering executive at Ford Motor Company, will spearhead several LEI initiatives to accelerate the adoption of lean…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Names New Chief Operations Officer, Announces Other Management Changes to Increase Collaboration with Customers
COO Mark Reich has more than 20 years experience helping a variety of companies implement lean management.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Manager Explains Why Retail and Service Companies Implement Lean Management
Retailers and service operations face special challenges with customer demand and the design of work for frontline personnel.
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Lean Problem Solving and A3 Expert Interviewed on Business901
“If you develop the [problem-solving] thought process of your workforce then you’re tapping into a potential that many companies ignore,” said Tracey Richardson, a faculty…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces Withdrawal from 2020 Lean Coaching Summit
Today, the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) canceled its participation in the 2020 Lean Coaching Summit due to the ongoing Covid-19 public health threat. “The decision…
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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Tells Entrepreneur Lean Management Is About Value Not Costs
The author and lean management expert explains how startups can use lean principles to stay lean as they grow.
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Daily Walking Is a Healthy Activity in Lean Plants
Art Smalley, Dave Logozzo, Drew Locher, and Sammy Obara, all Lean Enterprise Institute faculty members, are among the lean practitioners quoted in this Assembly story about…
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What Is an Engineer’s Most Important Tool? A Good Pair of Shoes
Senior Editor Jill Jusko’s interview with Jim Morgan, COO of electric car startup Rivian and director of LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development program, makes…
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Experts Available to Discuss the Benefit of Lean Management to Dramatically Improve Healthcare Delivery
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value (TCHV) can provide the news media with subject matter experts to discuss how…
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Lean Startup
A methodology that treats ideas for launching businesses and products as hypotheses that must be validated by rapid experimentation in the marketplace. According to leanstartup.com,…
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Influential Foodservice Newsletter Supports Steady Work Author’s Idea to Redesign #Restaurant Processes During Pandemic Shutdowns.
The Ashton Report cited the recommendation by Karen Gaudet that #QSR restaurants use lockdown time to develop better business processes.
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Lean Healthcare Reform Means Reforming Healthcare Management
Healthcare reform by reducing patient errors, improving outcomes, and delivering better quality care at a higher value was the topic of a keynote address by…
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Lean Management Expert Tells Management Accountants to “Take a Walk”
Jim Womack, who led the research team that coined the term “lean production,” shares his methodology for how to take “gemba walks” and recommendations for…
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Acting Your Way to Horizontal Thinking
In this keynote presentation from the 2013 AME conference, James Womack, founder of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, and Ingersoll-Rand executive Todd Wyman summarize the…
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