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How Lean Thinking and Practices Can Help You Prepare for and Rebound from a Crisis
As the world emerges from the depths of the pandemic, the Lean Sensei Women share how lean can help you…
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Ukrainian Resilience: How Lean is Helping Companies Cope with War, Part 1
A real-time discussion with the Lean Institute Ukraine President shows how leveraging lean thinking and practices help companies adapt to…
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Handling the Heat of the Kitchen: A WLEI Podcast
Hear how LEI coaches helped a flagship restaurant's kitchen staff find and eliminate waste in their work processes, which led…
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Saving $30,000 Worth of Clams with a $5 Cup
Learn how a manager and a fry cook tackled a food waste problem with a simple solution.
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How Organizations Can Increase Profitability While Improving the Work Environment
A restaurant’s management team discovers that enabling cooks to stay focused on value creation improves business performance and makes them…
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Embracing Regret for Better Living: A WLEI Podcast with author Dan Pink
LEI chats with author Dan Pink about his new book and how it relates to retrospective outlooks and continuous improvement.
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Ask Art: How Much Time Does It Take to Complete a Lean Transformation?
Though you can never be "finished" with the essential work of creating a continuous improvement culture, here are a few…
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Helping Companies Thrive by Creating Good Jobs
Two case studies and a detailed discussion of The Good Jobs Strategy show how investing in creating good jobs results…
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Finding a Countermeasure to the Great Resignation in Making Jobs Better
Watching an associate improve his work process prompts some ideas on how to attract and retain employees who are at…
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Meeting Strategic Objectives
Turner Construction uses hoshin kanri (strategy deployment) and A3 problem-solving to create a management system that ensures it achieves its…
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What You Need to Know About Standardized Work
LEI Senior Advisor John Shook offers a detailed diagnostic that lean practitioners can use to test whether they're benefiting as…
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Ask Art: How Does Lean Apply to Every Company?
Lean veteran Art Byrne shares a back-to-basics explanation of why — and how — lean thinking and practices can improve…
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