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14 Principles
John Shook on 14 Principles (not just Deming's and Liker's, either!)
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CLean and Green: How SunPower Used Lean to Address Sustainability
After years of lean practice, solar-device manufacturer SunPower wanted something more. They wanted to continue their journey of continuous improvement and become a more sustainable…
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Mutual Assistance Teamwork
Toshiko Narusawa, co-author with John Shook of Kaizen Express, illustrates Taiichi Ohno’s comparison of workplace teamwork to passing a baton. Ohno, the architect of the…
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Continuous Flow
Producing and moving one item at a time (or a small and consistent batch of items) through a series of processing steps as continuously as…
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5S
5S refers to five related terms, beginning with an S sound, describing workplace practices conducive to visual control and lean production. The five terms in…
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Lean Thinking and Practice
A five-step thought process proposed by Womack and Jones in 1996 to guide managers through a lean transformation. The five principles are: Specify value from…
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Lean Accounting Award Recognizes the Work of an Accounting Professor and Graduate Student
Excellence in Lean Accounting awards for 2010 went to Daniel Harris, a doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi, and Associate Professor Rosemary Fullerton, Ph.D.,…
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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Calls for Ending the “Madness” in Supply Chain Strategies
Shook made his recommendations on lean supply chains to authorities on Japan, leading investors, economists, policymakers, and business executives at Bloomberg’s Rebuilding Japan Conference.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Marks Its 15th Anniversary in 2012 with Move to New Offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
More open space at 215 First St., Suite 300, Cambridge, MA, will facilitate collaborative working and learning.
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Lean Enterprise Institute Webinar to Challenge Conventional Thinking about Leadership
Registration is open now for the September 9, 2014, free webinar “How to Lead with Respect.”
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Leadership Q&A: Bill Hopkins, Akron Children’s Hospital board member and former vice president, technology/strategic initiatives, at Goodyear
From the LEI senior executive series on lean leadership:Hopkins on why Akron Children’s Hospital leadership decided to implement lean process improvement at all levels and…
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