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Dueling Methods: 8D and A3
One of the scores of questions sent in by attendees at our recent webinar on the A3 problem-solving process was…
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Ask Art: Why Implement Lean During A Pandemic?
Implementing lean during this pandemic will allow many more companies to emerge from this economic crisis in far better shape…
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Changing Routines
In this article exploring ways to help lead positive change, Josh Howell asks: is pursuing understanding and conviction part of…
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How to Develop Healthy Habits for Mindful Coaching
Powerful lean coaches help others create productive habits that over time produce a type of "muscle memory" that forms a…
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A Radical Redesign of Making Crudito — and All Restaurant Kitchens
Using animations of a few basic continuous improvement tools, Matt Savas, a team leader at the Lean Enterprise Institute and…
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Beware the Comforts of Waste
After a major move, lean thinker Rose Heathcote reflected that with lean thinking comes the responsibility to look inward at…
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How Using Kanban Builds Trust
Kanban functions as a trust machine because everyone using it must understand what they have to do and why, says…
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How a Lean Quoting Process Helps You Capture High-Value Opportunities, Part 3
Setting up a Daily Opportunity Review Board helps your company strategically respond to high-value customer inquiries.
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Beyond ‘Linear’ Intelligence: Learning Lean Through Shared Experiments and Improvements
Learning entails far more than a linear set of directions from one person to another, argues LEI's Masia Goodman, who…
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How the A3 Process Developed to Help Build Better Managers, Part Two
In this second of two articles, Isao Yoshino and John Shook explore how A3 emerged as powerful practice at Toyota…
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How the A3 Process Developed to Help Build Better Managers
One of the hallmarks of a successfully executed A3 process is that it is a collaborative activity--a learning process for…
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PDCA Is Really CA-PDCA — and It’s the CA that Makes the PD Work
Why Grasping the Actual Conditions (firsthand as an automatic practice) at the beginning, during, and after a problem-solving effort is…
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