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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Wins Sloan Management Review Award for Best Article on Change and Organizational Development

Winning article on culture change lessons from NUMMI should be “required reading” for anyone concerned with corporate culture change, according to SMR.

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Assessing Problem Solving Capability in Job Candidates: A True Account

Last month, Derrick Redding shared three questions that you can ask job candidates to assess their problem-solving capacity. As a followup, he is now sharing…

by Dr. John R. Ehrenfeld

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What do effective leaders actually do every day? GTS⁴

So many of us know the value of lean thinking and practice, but what do lean leaders actually do every day? Tracey Richardson offers a…

by Tracey Richardson

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Beyond Toyota

Weíve won the battle of ideas on how to operate and improve processes. But creating management systems and organizations that can practice (not just preach)…

by James (Jim) Womack, PhD

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Toyota and Sudden Acceleration: Facts from the NASA Report

NASA just released its highly anticipated report about the Sudden Unintended Acceleration (SUA) charge in Toyota vehicles. The verdict is in. And Toyota’s electronic throttle…

by John Shook

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Focus Your Operating System To Bring Your Strategy to Life

A strategy can just turn into wallpaper if you don't have the right systems in place to support it. Jim Morgan has seen this happen…

by James Morgan, PhD

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Why Doesn't Lean Have a Seat at the Table?

Why hasn’t Lean spread more widely, asks Steven Spear, suggesting that it has not been framed in a way that addresses the strategic concern of…

by Steven Spear

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Your Gemba Isn't the Only Gemba to Walk

We all know the critical importance of gemba walks in our organization. But what many of us forget is that sometimes visiting OTHER gembas can…

by Aaron Hunt

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What Level of a Problem Requires an A3?

Here are some thoughts to help you determine what type of problem you have, and how to apply A3 thinking to it most productively. You…

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Lessons From Japan: Day Three

Is Toyota improving productivity or developing people? What we saw today suggests not just that the answer is both but that the two are inseparable,…

by Lean Leaper

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Designed In Quality

Extraordinary quality is not only designed into the product, it is designed into the development process itself, says Jim Morgan, who suggests that the next…

by James Morgan, PhD

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Fundamentals Redux--An Appreciation of Kaizen Express

Kaizen Express is the expression of an approach to kaizen that is at once a return to basics while at the same time emphasizing the…

by John Shook

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4 Core Principles of Lean Product and Process Development Explained

The ability to consistently create “insanely great” products, as Steve Jobs would say, is the ultimate competitive advantage. But many companies struggle to develop profitable…

by Katrina Appell, PhD and John Drogosz, PhD

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Grit, PDCA, Lean and other four-letter words

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of what author Angela Duckworth calls Grit. She defines grit as a sort of mash-up between passion…

by Josh Howell

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Managing Suppliers

Dear Gemba Coach: We've done a lot of kaizen work in production and have something of a pull system running. We've started measuring on time delivery…

by Michael Ballé