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2021's Top Posts: Insights that Will Enhance Your Lean Thinking and Practice

This year's most popular Lean Posts feature thought leadership and guidance on several issues that are challenging for even the most advanced lean practitioner.

by Lean Leaper

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Synchronizing Workflows

LEI's lean product and process development coaches share the fourth of several guiding principles that will help you improve the success of your organization's new…

by Lean Leaper

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Designing the Value Stream

LEI's lean product and process development coaches share the fifth of several guiding principles that will help you improve the success of your organization's new…

by Lean Leaper

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Isn’t flow the ultimate aim of lean?

Dear Gemba Coach: Isn’t flow the ultimate aim of lean?

by Michael Ballé

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Where can I find information about visual management?

Dear Gemba Coach: I can’t find much written about visual management although it seems an important part of lean – any idea where to look?

by Michael Ballé

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Is the digital revolution a more important business development than lean?

Dear Gemba Coach, Isn’t the digital revolution, especially in services, a more important business development than lean?

by Michael Ballé

Case Study

Shifting to Value-Stream Managers:a Shop-Floor Revolution Leads to a Revolution in Plant Organization

Two years into a lean transformation, the low-hanging fruit has been plucked and progress has started to slow. Read how a Thomas & Betts plant…

News

200,000 Preventable Deaths: It’s Time for Fundamental Change

The news reports that an estimated 200,000 people will die from preventable medical mistakes this year is a sad and telling statement on the abundant…

Press Release

Lean Management Workshops Set for Cambridge

The Lean Enterprise Institute, venue for the lineup of 5 workshops, including two new ones, is within driving distance of most New England executives and…

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“A Roadmap to Lean Healthcare Success” Webinar: Follow-up Questions and Answers

The Lean Enterprise Institute's webinar "A Roadmap to Lean Healthcare Success" with John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, drew thousands…

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Organization Follows a Lean-like Vision for Eradicating Poverty

Meet the anti-poverty movement's Taiichi Ohno.

by Jacob Stoller

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New Book, On the Mend, Prescribes Lean Healthcare to Cure U.S. Healthcare Delivery Waste and Errors

On the Mend tells the true story of how ThedaCare, a Wisconsin health system, implemented lean healthcare, a revolutionary new system for delivering more patient…

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Lean Practitioners Gather to Share Ideas that Grow the Bottom Line by Growing People’s Knowledge

We were among the nearly 2,000 lean thinkers attending the 2014 AME conference, organized around six value streams: Engaged People, Daily Improvement, Innovation, Extended Enterprise,…

eBook

Lean Lexicon 5th Edition

The fifth edition of the Lexicon, first published in January 2003, is 140 pages, containing 60+ illustrations and 207 key terms from A3 Report to…

by Lean Enterprise Institute

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Lean Business-IT Integration, Part Five: Measurement - Finding Our True North

In the fifth article of a five-part series on Lean IT, LEI faculty member Steve Bell addresses measurement. Part One begins with the importance of…

by Steve Bell

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Using Lean Thinking to Help Schools Get the Resources They Need at DonorsChoose.org

A fantastic example of how lean thinking and practice has moved into the nonprofit sector, DonorsChoose.org began its lean journey in 2007 when its leadership…

by Lex Schroeder