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Innovation Through Customer Collaboration
Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Steve Bell shows you how to examine and improve your activities for learning the Voice…
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Your Product Isn’t Everything, It’s the Only Thing
Jim Morgan, former product/process development executive at Ford (and co-author of The Toyota Product Development System), reflects on what should…
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Waste-Free Capitalism
In his first piece for The Lean Post, lean thought leader and LEI author Michael Ballé shares Toyota's lessons for…
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Managing the Wisdom of the Many
"Lean organizations that depend on the qualities of rare individuals face multi-dimensional risks," writes Boaz Tamir, President of Israel Lean…
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Does quality really come first?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’ve been practicing lean for many years and have learned to create flow and one-piece-flow. However I…
Read article Emergency Departments Use Lean Principles in an Effort to Perfect Patient Journeys
Sixty hospital emergency departments in Michigan formed a collaborative to apply the value-stream improvement methodology to cut the length of…
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What’s Really Underlying the Protests in Brazil?
The world looked on as protests and subsequent violence swept Brazil earlier in June. José Ferro explains the state's response…
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Be Prepared to Change Your Habits
LEI Coach Danielle Blais likens lean learning to something we all know something about: starting a new exercise routine or…
Read article Lean Consortia “Lessons Learned”
Here is a quick overview of the lessons learned by experienced leaders in our case study on lean consortia.
Read article Lean Consortium Delivers Great Ideas to Improve Your Business
A key suggestion about how to improve flow from lean consortium members spares Steel Tech the cost of buying a…
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Starting Points for Different Value Streams
No lean transformation story is the same. Read Dan Jones's take on gaining traction for lean learning within your organization…
Read article Can lean go wrong?
Dear Gemba Coach: Can lean go wrong? Can the ideas be misused and can the outcome be bad for the…
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