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How Respect for People Animates the Lean Spirit
Practicing respect is an animating force of lean leadership that colors how one coaches and develops people. This roundup of…
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The Art of Lean: Use These Tools to Help You Improve a Process, Part 2
Take a closer look into this four-step approach that will help you "pinpoint the tricky parts" of a process as…
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Jim Womack Shares a Future-Focused Reflection on ‘Machine’
Jim Womack shares a future-focused, humble reflection of the groundbreaking book he co-authored with Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos,…
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How Menlo’s Virtual Teams Are Lighting the Way Forward
While Menlo Software continues to adjust to the never-ending changes caused by COVID-19, founder Rich Sheridan takes solace that they…
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Product Development Lessons from a Global Pandemic
How a Lean Product & Process Development (LPPD) approach would accelerate a Covid-19 vaccine.
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How to Build Resilience Through Sustained Lean Practice
As the upcoming virtual lean learning experience shows, lean thrives when the individuals using this learning and improvement method leverage…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Responds to The Wall Street Journal’s Mischaracterization of Just-in-Time
A message from LEI to the Lean Community
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LEI Responds to The Wall Street Journal’s Mischaracterization of Just-in-Time
LEI's response to the August 21 Wall Street Journal article that mischaracterized Just-in-TIme.
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Understanding Lean Product and Process Development: An LEI Explainer Video
Learn what Lean Product & Process Development (LPPD) is, why it's critical in developing successful value streams, why companies struggle…
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Exploring the Advantages of Online Learning
Learn how LEI is tapping into lean ways of learning and leveraging the latest learning technologies in the design of…
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Enduring Lessons from The Birth of Lean
Lean was never conceived as a new and comprehensive system designed to replace conventional enterprise. Rather, as shown in The…
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Growing from a Tactical Practitioner to a Strategic Thinker
One helpful way to move from being a tactical leader to a strategic one is to suggest that a better…
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