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Managing Amid Chaos

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Socially Responsible Design Meets Lean Product and Process Development: A Conversation with Cynthia E. Smith

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Hoshin Kanri as a Foundational Piece of a Lean Management System

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Developing More than a Machine: How an MIT D-Lab Project for Tanzanian Farmers Produces Crops, Entrepreneurs, and Engineers

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Driving Continuous Improvement through Frontline Supervisors: A Conversation with TRQSS President Mark Dolsen

Podcast by Mark Dolsen

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2024 Lean Summit Keynote — Scaling Agile Through Lean Principles

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Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process

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Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade

Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade

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March 26, 2025

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Lean Warehousing and Distribution Operations

Plant City, Florida

Improve a distribution center’s efficiency, quality, safety, and space utilization.

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April 15, 2025

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Building a Lean Operating and Management System 

Morgantown, PA

Gain the in-depth understanding of lean principles, thinking, and practices.

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April 17, 2025

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Investing in Work(ers) Using Job Methods and Job Instruction

Morgantown, PA

Learn how to develop team members for sustained success.

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The A3 course from LEI has helped shape our course of action on problem-solving. While we don’t necessarily complete an A3 for all problems yet, the class has helped train our thinking, holding back on jumping to countermeasures before asking basic level questions, and working through PDCA.

Jon Yoder
Research & Development, Veada

First, I want to extend a huge thank you to you for giving your time and talent to helping me develop during the Lean Summit. I am continuing to work on the A3 and have so many ideas as we move forward with audit improvements. Thank you for opening your schedule to the workshop participants Again, I am very thankful for your time and for helping me develop professionally. I am confident that growing these skills will assist in providing the means to improve outcomes for children and families!

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Deputy Director of Strategic Solutions and Agency Transformation Indiana Department of Child Services

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Quality Systems Manager, HP Hood LLC

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