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Making People Before Making Products
Dear Gemba Coach: I keep hearing about “making people before making products” but I have a hard time visualizing what this…
Read article Lean Leap by Auto Supplier Gets Boost from Leaping Figure Skaters
As part of its lean transformation, a Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, MI, is using video and motion analysis software…
Read article Example A3: Acme Stamping – Project Status Review (from Managing to Learn)
An example of an A3 from the book Understanding A3 Thinking by Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley, included…
Read article Example A3: Lean Institute Brasil – Summit Sessions (from Managing to Learn)
An example of an A3 from Lean Institute Brasil, developed during attendance at the Managing to Learn workshop, included as…
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An Open and Honest Culture at Thedacare, a Lean Story
In this video, John Toussaint, a co-author of the LEI publication On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and…
Watch video Lean Drives Improved Patient Care at Park Nicollet Frauenshuh Cancer Center
Instead of requiring patients to move from department to department to receive their care, a process typical in most cancer…
Watch video Homicide by Example?
My LEI colleague Dave LaHote is fond of saying that managers - and especially senior managers - overestimate their effectiveness,…
Read article What Should I Be Looking For?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’ve just started working with lean with my team, and we’re doing a value-stream mapping project with a…
Read article Lean Transformational Leadership Webinar – Follow-up Q & A and Reading List
During the Transformational Leadership webinar, many of you asked for the list of related books and articles that presenter Jim…
Read article How Do I Lead Change Without Discouraging Employee Engagement?
Dear Gemba Coach: How do you balance the sometime conflicting practices of gaining employee engagement while ensuring that everyone remains…
Read article Where to Start in Engineering
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m in charge of the engineering department in our company and the CEO has asked me to start…
Read article The Tipping Point?
Early efforts to apply lean principles to healthcare faltered and for many years the challenge seemed to be too great.…
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