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Operations: Why lean programs fail
Business Excellence features an article written by Mike Rother, co author of the LEI workbooks Learning to See and Creating Continuous Flow, and Jeff Liker, author of…
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Lean Transformation Summit Features a Job Shop’s Long Lean Journey
A unique group of companies, including Lantech, which has sustained a lean transformation since the early 1990s, will reveal how they are developing “lean for…
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Seattle Workshops on Lean Thinking For Healthcare & Administrative Processes
11 public workshops sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute May 11-13 will cover how to implement lean management concepts in healthcare and administrative processes…
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Lean Learning for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Services
13 lean workshops in Chicago by the Lean Enterprise Institute will cover value-stream mapping, culture change, strategy deployment, and much more.
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New Book, On the Mend, Prescribes Lean Healthcare to Cure U.S. Healthcare Delivery Waste and Errors
On the Mend tells the true story of how ThedaCare, a Wisconsin health system, implemented lean healthcare, a revolutionary new system for delivering more patient…
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Lean Manufacturing and Company Culture Change Workshops in Los Angeles
The workshops include 5S and value-stream mapping along with Sustainable Lean Culture and Kaizen: the Culture of Continuous Improvement, plus many more.
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Lean Management Books from the Lean Enterprise Institute Win Two Shingo Research Awards
Follow the Learner and The Lean Manager, which explain the implementation of lean leadership and lean management principles, have won the prestigious award administered by…
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Lean Supply Chains and Logistics Are Subjects of a Free Webinar
Learn the 8 guiding principles for turning supply "chains" into smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment.
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Lean Manufacturing Novel "The Gold Mine" Is Now an Audio Book
In a compelling and instructive story, The Gold Mine addresses what might be the most important lean discipline—the human challenge of creating and sustaining the…
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Lean Manufacturing and Service Workshops Set for San Francisco
15 public workshops will cover how to implement lean management concepts in manufacturing, information technology, product development, job shops, warehousing, and distribution processes.
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Lean Management Workshops in Pittsburgh Will Cover Manufacturing and Services
The lean management workshop series will help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.
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11 Lean Management Workshops for Texas Announced by the Lean Enterprise Institute
A curriculum of lean workshops set for Dallas, TX, will help manufacturing and service companies accelerate their lean transformations.
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Gemba-Based Education for Supply Chain and Distribution Professionals
Lean Enterprise Institute and LeanCor, a third-party logistics provider, partner to offer hands-on workshop.
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Lean Manufacturing and Lean Service Workshops Set for Los Angeles
Lean concepts for manufacturing, IT, offices and other environments will be covered along with how to create a lean culture of continuous improvement.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Publishes 2nd Edition of Seeing the Whole Value Stream with New Examples of Lean Supply Chain Analysis
Download value-stream maps of supply chains from manufacturing and service companies along with excerpts from Seeing the Whole Value Stream at the Lean Enterprise Institute’s…
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The Lean Enterprise Institute, publisher of The Birth of Lean, Announces that Individual Chapters Are Now Available for Download
Lean Thinkers now can pay for just the chapters they want to read in this important book about the creation of the Toyota Production System…
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Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Workshop Set for Lean Transportation Center
The Lean Enterprise Institute and LeanCor, a third-party logistics provider, partner to offer a hands-on workshop.
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Lean Manufacturing and Service Workshops Address Cultural and Technical Challenges of Lean Transformations
The Lean Enterprise Institute will sponsor 17 workshops to help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.
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Continuous Improvement Key Is the Subject of a Free Webinar by the Lean Enterprise Institute
The webinar with researcher and author Mike Rother is set for June 28, 2012, at 2 p.m. (Eastern).
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Lean Culture Change Workshop Added to the Summer/Fall Schedule at the Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute
The newest workshop, Improvement Kata, is one of five summer and fall sessions designed to deliver practical, how-to answers in plain language about basic and…
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