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Why Lean Remains a Superior Business Model and Way of Thinking
The lean business model offers an alternative to conventional thinking that enables organizations to gain a competitive advantage by being…
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Lean in One Drawing
An LEI faculty member explains in a brief video why it’s vital to view lean thinking and practice as a…
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Ask Art: Why Should I Focus on My Balance Sheet to Grow Earnings?
Lean practitioners understand that focusing on this financial statement is the best way to achieve higher sales and lower costs.
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How to Improve Your Product Development Process
Members of LEI's Lean Product and Process Development Learning Group share their successful strategies.
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Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
The Cleveland Clinic's lean management and operating system helped it handle the challenges arising from the pandemic. Here are several…
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Serving Up Lean with a Southern-Fried Kick
Haven Hot Chicken used lean thinking and practices to launch a successful restaurant during a pandemic.
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The Healing Power of Lean Product and Process Development in Healthcare
Can Lean Product and Process Development or LPPD, which evolved in the automotive industry, work in healthcare? Paul Paliani, who…
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Putting Customers First
The cofounders of a successful startup share how lean thinking and practices helped ensure they kept their focus on the…
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Building a Learning Organization with Kata
Baptist Memorial Hospital uses kata to build an "army of problem solvers." Here's the "meta-routine" they follow and a few…
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How to Improve Decision-Making to Accelerate Product Development
GE Appliance’s next-generation dishwasher development team created a decision-flow mapping process to eliminate project delays.
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Ask Art: What is the Best Lean Leadership Development Program?
Leaders learn and adopt lean thinking the same way everyone else does: by practicing it. Here are a few ideas…
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Managing the Work from Startup to Scaleup
How one company tapped lean thinking and practice to design its business management system — and as a countermeasure to…
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