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Insights on Why, When, and How Value-Stream Mapping is a Vital Part of Continuous Improvement
A selection of Lean Posts offers the information leaders need to maximize the benefit of using this powerful lean practice.
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Ask Art: What’s So Important About Reducing Setup Times?
An overview of the strategic and tactical benefits of eliminating waste from changeovers demonstrates why it should be a focus…
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Using Lean Thinking and Practices to Shrink the Time Between Disaster and Recovery
SBP leveraged a continuous-improvement model based on the Toyota Production System to devise and execute creative solutions to rebuild a…
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6 Guidelines for Moving Toward a Lean Value Stream
Once you’re ready to use value-stream mapping to continuously improve your value streams, follow this advice from the authors of…
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A Postcard — with Leadership Insights — from Nashville
A look back at LEI’s Lean Transformation Summit in 2018 shares a few tips from CEO keynoters on how to…
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Assessing a New Way to Develop More Lean Thinkers
The James P. Womack Scholarship & Philanthropy Fund reflects on its experiments to improve the teaching of lean thinking and…
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How Lean Thinking and Practices Helps Manage Rapid Growth
The cofounders of a successful digital startup share their experience navigating uncertainty.
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Why You Need to Map the Extended Value Stream
This case study from the LEI workbook Seeing the Whole Value Stream shows how the practice can help businesses optimize…
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Ask Art: How Important are Your Suppliers to Implementing Lean Production?
You won't reap the full benefits of lean production without involving your suppliers as an essential part of your value…
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Why Value-Stream Mapping is Essential to Product and Process Development
Learn about a proven way to help cross-functional teams clearly “see” their work and achieve their full potential.
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Expanding the Purpose of Catchball
Learn how catchball, the process of colleagues tossing ideas back and forth to improve them iteratively, helps get the job…
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Embrace Lean for Respect, Learning, and Growth
A new book demonstrates how lean thinking and practices can help organizations manage rapid growth.
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