Article
Whatever Happened to Quality First: Rethinking Product Development in the Wake of Recalls and Catastrophic Failures
This Design Brief tackles the often-overlooked topic of building quality into new products. Learn how a customer-centric approach in development can prevent costly rework and…
View article![Quality Icon](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/quality-375x137.jpg)
Article
What comes after Lean?
Lean practice is an ongoing process, it never ends. But what are we learning about the field? What comes after Lean in terms of emerging…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/66_large-375x137.jpg)
Article
Put Your People at The Center of Your Development System
"It is your people that provide the skills, energy and creativity," writes Jim Morgan. "They are the single most important element of great product development…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/509_large-375x137.jpg)
Article
How Standardized Work Integrates People with Process
In this three-part series, John Shook argues that "the Toyota Way is a socio-technical system on steroids" that brings together people (social) and processes (technical)…
View article![social and technical balanced by management and driven by purpose](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/social_technical-balance-375x137.jpg)
Article
Why We Are a Nonprofit (And How You Can Benefit)
Every month I get calls and emails from folks thinking the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a consulting business and wanting to hire a sensei.…
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)
Article
Fight for Your Lean Team
Managers, supervisors and coaches should mindfully support the storming and norming that teams require in order to grow an existing work team into a high…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1388_large-375x137.png)
Article
The Best Lean Healthcare Stories You May Have Missed
Looking ahead to the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit June 5-6, Lex Schroeder rounds up some of the best lean healthcare pieces on the Post.
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/215_large-375x137.jpg)
Video
How Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse Improves Product Development Success
Three leading practitioners share successful examples of how they built learning and knowledge reuse into their development process.
View video![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1436_large-375x137.jpeg)
Article
Improve Continuously by Mastering the Lean Kata
Lean is about learning, say Rose Heathcote and Daryl Powell. Learning to find real problems, learning to face the limits of our current knowledge in…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/1319_large-375x137.png)
Article
Remembering Freddy Ballé
On October 31st, the Lean Movement lost one of its pioneers. In this piece, Dan Jones reflects on Freddy Ballé’s legacy.
View article![Remembering Freddy Balle](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/freddy-balle-remembrance-375x137.jpg)
Article
4 Actions that Solved My Lean Management Identity Crisis
Mike Orzen had lean management down cold – or so he thought. After all, he makes a living teaching it to managers and executives. But…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1007_large-375x137.jpg)
Article
PDCA at the Plate
We know that "lean" is all about plan-do-check-act (PDCA). The challenge we all face in our everyday work is to answer the question, How do…
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)
Article
Customers Should Determine the Businesses of the Future, Not the 1%
"We set up entrepreneurs to fail when we put all the emphasis on pitch day and the amount of money raised, instead of rewarding companies…
View article![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/144_large-375x137.jpg)
Video
What are the Three A's of the A3?
John Shook explains the three A's of the A3 in this video clip from the presentation that he and Lisa Yerian, chief improvement officer at…
View video![](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1410_large-375x137.jpg)
Article
2024 Lean Summit Recap
LEI's Lean Summit showcased how leaders leverage lean for innovation from AI-powered healthcare to US manufacturing's revival.
View article![Crowd at lean summit 2024](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/summit_recap-375x137.jpg)
Article
Do I have the right attitude during gemba walks?
Dear Gemba Coach: How do I know if I have the right attitude during gemba walks? We’ve started doing those systematically, but I realize how…
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)
Article
What Lean Thinkers Think About The Gold Mine
Questions and comments†from readers to co-author Michael BallÈ about his book The Gold Mine.
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)
Article
Making Everyone Whole
While observing lean value streams across three continents, I encountered common resistance to process improvements, often attributed to "bad people." However, a deeper look reveals…
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)
Article
Jim Womack on how lean compares with Six Sigma, Re-engineering, TOC, TPM, etc., etc.
It amazes me, but I still get lots of questions about how “lean” compares with Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance, Business Process Re-engineering, Demand-Flow, the…
View article![Article graphic image with repeating icons](https://www.lean.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fallback-article-375x137.jpg)