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Creating a Learning and Improvement Environment in a Virtual World

Mount Sinai Health System Shares its Approach to Adapting Quickly to New Realities.

by Alice Lee, Joseph Mari, Andrew Nenos and Swati Garg

Article

A Body Needs Skeleton and Muscle to Work

How do you create alignment across the organization when you have separate departments, value streams, and executives with conflicting priorities? Hoshin kanri. Mark Reich explains.

by Mark Reich

Article

A Learning Partnership to Support A New Era in American Manufacturing

As policymakers and business leaders work to rebuild and reimagine a struggling U.S. economy, GE is not only at the center of the conversation about…

by Lex Schroeder

Case Study

Thrustmaster Comes Around

The following Lean Enterprise Institute case study reveals how Thrustmaster of Texas successfully adopted lean thinking and practices to make sustainable improvements in a short…

by and David Drickhamer

Video

No Mani Pedi, But Keepers Improve Elephant Foot Washing

Supporting process owners includes stepping in for zoo keepers when their better idea for washing an elephant’s foot gets rejected as this Lean Talks video…

by Jeff Foster

Article

Lean Business-IT Integration, Part Four: The Lean Learning Leader

In the fourth article of a five-part series on Lean IT, LEI faculty member Steve Bell addresses leadership and IT governance. Part One begins with…

by Steve Bell

Article

Do Managers "Get" Lean?

Dear Gemba Coach: You mentioned during the webinar that plant tours reveal how well managers 'get' lean. Can you be more specific?

by Michael Ballé

Article

Isn’t flow the ultimate aim of lean?

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

by Michael Ballé

Article

In your opinion, is lean thinking a common sense way of working or is it counterintuitive? What makes you think that?

Here are all the submissions to the community sound off question: "In your opinion, is lean thinking a common sense way of working or is…

by Lean Enterprise Institute

Case Study

Knife Company Hones Competitiveness by Bucking the Status Quo

Family-owned Buck Knives needed to reduce costs by at least 30% to keep its U.S. operations open. In turning to lean, the company gained more than…

by Tonya Vinas

Article

The Lean Management System: The Key to Sustainability and CI, an Interview with Joe Murli

Achieving wins is only half the battle in a lean transformation - you also need a way to sustain those wins and foster a culture…

by Cameron Ford and Joe Murli

Article

Integrating Finance into Operational Kaizen: The Operational Leader’s Perspective

Two lean practitioners explain how and why they include accounting and finance teams in all continuous improvement efforts.

by Mike DeLuca

Article

The Power of a Precise Process

When I first started to study the Toyota Production System many years ago, I was struck by something very simple: Its utter precision. Equally striking,…

by James (Jim) Womack, PhD

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Case Study

Landscape Forms Cultivates Lean to Fuel Growth Goals

With single-item orders 80% of the time, adopting single-piece flow and cellular production made sense to management at Landscape Forms, a low-volume, high-mix producer of…

Article

Why Your Lean Journey Needs a Self-Evaluation

Every company on a lean journey needs to occasionally step back and evaluate where they are, where they have gaps in performance, and what steps…

by Doug Bartholomew

Article

Is Lean Scientific?

Dear Gemba Coach: I often hear that lean is like the scientific method. As a lean consultant, I facilitate kaizen events, and find it hard to…

by Michael Ballé

Article

Isn’t the obsession with problem solving unnecessarily negative and depressing?

Dear Gemba Coach: Isn’t the obsession with problem solving unnecessarily negative and depressing?

by Michael Ballé

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…

by David Drickhamer

Article

Lean Leap by Auto Supplier Gets Boost from Leaping Figure Skaters

As part of its lean transformation, a Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, MI, is using video and motion analysis software developed for athletes to improve…