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Such a Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever
Lean thinking, principles, and experiments show up everywhere and make a real difference, sometimes in places you'd least expect.
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Using lean principles to escape the tyranny of the email inbox
Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Dan Markovitz, an expert on improving personal performance, tells you how to reduce the volume…
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Why aren’t the laws of lean articulated?
Dear Gemba Coach: Aren’t there laws of lean, just as there are laws of physics? And why aren’t these clearly…
Read article Why don’t middle managers practice A3 thinking? (Part 2)
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m a lean consultant, and have been hired by a large service organization to develop an A3…
Read article A SKILL-LEVEL ICON FOR VS MAPS
This SlideShare presents a new Value Stream Mapping icon to indicate both current & future-state Improvement Kata skill levels for…
Watch video Improving Continuous Improvement in Healthcare Through Collaborative Learning: The Leaning Edge interviews Perfecting Patient Journeys co-author Beau Keyte
Perfecting Patient Journeys co-author Beau Keyte talks with The Leaning Edge host Debra Levantrosser about the central role of collaborative learning…
Read 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…
Read article Why don’t middle managers practice A3 thinking?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m a lean consultant, and have been hired by a large service organization to develop an A3…
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Lean Design and Construction Project an Extension of Lean Commitment at Akron Children’s Hospital
When the Ambulatory Surgery & Critical Care Tower opens in 2015, it will represent a three-year lean design and construction…
View case study Patients First (Part II)
Writing in the Huffington Post, Karl Ohaus, a co-author of Perfecting Patient Journeys, poses 7 questions to ask at the…
Read article Managing to Connect the Macro with the Micro
LEI Chairman and CEO John Shook explains management PDCA: improving the way we align people with process to achieve purpose,…
Read article Why Are There So Many Points of View About What Lean Is?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’ve been interested in lean for over two years now, and can’t quite understand why after 20…
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