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Create Profitable Value Streams
Why does lean product development focus on building profitable value streams? LEI Senior Advisor John Shook explains in this month's…
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How Lean Thinking and Practice Helped Put Shots in Arms, Part 1: Building the Process
Does lean thinking work during a crisis? An in-depth review of its contribution to the design and management of Ohio…
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How Designing Value Streams, Not Just Products, Creates Competitive Advantage
TechnipFMC and Pella Corporation leaders describe how lean development practices helped them develop better products, create profitable value streams and…
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Thinking About Introducing A3 Problem-Solving? Think Twice if Leadership Isn’t Engaged
Your organization’s leadership doesn’t support introducing the A3 problem-solving process, but why not introduce it into your unit or area…
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Imagining A World Without Email with Cal Newport
A typical work day is already packed, but is there waste that can be removed? WLEI host Tom Ehrenfeld and…
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Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 8: Toyota Coaching Practices
Art describes some of the fundamental principles of Toyota coaching practices.
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Ask Art: Why Should I Convert to a Pull System?
Deliver more value to your customers by converting your business to a pull system and connecting demand directly to your…
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10 Golden Rules for Radical Quality Improvement
What you need to know and do to lead your team to make step-change improvements to quality.
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Why Creating Better Jobs and Improving Work Matters
How improving your work environment is vital to improved business outcomes.
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How Intertape Polymer Group Used Pilots and Parallel Systems to Learn and Implement Lean Accounting
IPG's director and VP of finance manufacturing share their disciplined strategy for adopting lean accounting and finance.
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Ensuring Success of Hoshin Kanri – a Better Way to Plan and Execute Your Strategy
Logoplaste's global vice president of lean and strategy shares a few vital lessons, learned through experience, about a proven way…
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Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 7: Dreyfus Model and the Stages of Learning
Art looks at another external framework in an effort to help shorten your lead times of learning, development, and problem-solving.
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