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Process Leadership
I first heard the term Kaikaku over ten years ago when travelling with a Toyota Sensei around Japan, while researching…
Read article The Big Opportunity
I started studying manufacturing performance††26 years ago this fall. We set out at MIT to perform the most exhaustive and…
Read article Necessary But Not Sufficient
One of the hardest things in my line of work is seeing a company make enormous strides in getting lean…
Read article Competing with China
There are two sea changes going on in the world economy. The first is the rise of the “low cost”…
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Massachusetts General Looks to Lean
Northeast Proton Therapy Center uses lean principles to increase capacity to treat life-threatening diseases.
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Value-Stream Mapping in a Make-to-Order Environment
Tips from LEI author Mike Rother on applying value-stream mapping and continuous flow in high-variety, custom manufacturing environments.
Read article Lean Publishing and Lean Solutions
Normally I walk through other people’s industries. But today let me take a brief walk through my own: publishing. You…
Read article The Health Factory
This quote from the article applies to the ideas in Managing to Learn: What sets the non-health care leaders apart…
Read article Lean Consumption, Lean Provision, and Lean Solutions
Here’s some good news for the Lean Community. I was recently in Spain where I toured a facility belonging to…
Read article Canada Post Puts Its Stamp on a Lean Transformation
A growing lean transformation at Canada Post's Calgary plant shows how lean principles can be implemented in environments other than…
View case study Supply Chain Walks
One of the most interesting things I do is to take a walk through a complete supply chain. I did…
Read article The A3 as a PDCA Storyboard
Thanks to Dave LaHote for sharing this PowerPoint that explains what an A3 is and how it can be used.…
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