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How to Improve Your Product Development Process
Members of LEI's Lean Product and Process Development Learning Group share their successful strategies.
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Remembering Freddy Ballé
On October 31st, the Lean Movement lost one of its pioneers. In this piece, Dan Jones reflects on Freddy Ballé’s legacy.
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Whatever Happened to Quality First: Rethinking Product Development in the Wake of Recalls and Catastrophic Failures
This Design Brief tackles the often-overlooked topic of building quality into new products. Learn how a customer-centric approach in development can prevent costly rework and…
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2024 Lean Summit Recap
LEI's Lean Summit showcased how leaders leverage lean for innovation from AI-powered healthcare to US manufacturing's revival.
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Value-Stream Mapping
Mike Rother, co-author of Learning to See, offers some insights about the dos, don’ts, and maybes of value-stream mapping.
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Webinar
4 Types of Problems: The Keys to Better Organizational Problem Solving
Join Art Smalley for this important, eye-opening webinar and learn why settling on a favorite problem-solving technique or two is a big mistake. Art will…
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Podcast
Making Lean Stick: A Podcast Conversation with Mark Deluzio, Art Byrne, and Jim Womack
The long-term success of companies like Danaher, Fortive, Herman Miller, Parker Hannifin and many others, have all validated the power of lean thinking and practice.…
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Press Release
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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