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Do You Practice Routine Personal Development?
Once we learn lean we often start seeing it everywhere, even in places we might least expect it. In this instance, Katie Anderson saw a…
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How effective is a book club?
Dear Gemba Coach: How effective is a book club? Should we invest in book clubs?
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Flaatnes Elektro-Mek Reveals How Double Loop Learning Supports Lean Thinking and Practice
Every experience is a learning experience. However, we tend to only experience single-loop learning where we reaffirm what we already think is true. Lean gives…
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Leading Lean in Finance at Turner Construction
A finance leader from the largest general builder in the United States explains the benefits of involving the accounting and finance teams in your lean…
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Building the Mindset and Skillset to Improve from the Board Room to the Classroom
A school district superintendent describes how lean thinking and practice transformed a failing district into a nationally recognized model of continuous improvement.
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Why does kaizen feel like chaos?
Dear Gemba Coach: Why does kaizen always feel so destabilizing?
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What topics, tools, and techniques would you include in an MBA-level course on teaching lean concepts?
Dear Gemba Coach: I am designing an MBA-level course to teach lean concepts. What topics, tools, and techniques would you include in a 7-week, 14-session…
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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 everyone involved: for learner and…
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CRIISSP: The Lean Route to a Superior Stock Market Valuation
Long-term lean thinker and investment guru Cliff Ransom shares a seven-letter acronym, CRIISSP, to help identify the key (and most valued) qualities of superior lean…
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An interview with Gary Convis on A3 thinking and lean leadership
Lean veteran Gary Convis explains how the A3 report serves as a flexible tool that develops leaders and aligns important goals across plants, divisions, and…
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Spring Spotlight: Creating the Purposeful Enterprise
Information and insights that explore the many facets of this fundamental lean concept. A compilation of the articles published as part of an occasional series…
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Do you use Japanese terms in your lean transformation or purposely avoid them? Why?
Recently we asked our community "Do you use Japanese terms in your lean transformation or purposely avoid them? Why?" Below is a list of all…
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2021's Top Posts: Insights that Will Enhance Your Lean Thinking and Practice
This year's most popular Lean Posts feature thought leadership and guidance on several issues that are challenging for even the most advanced lean practitioner.
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What's wrong with taking a tools approach to lean management?
Dear Gemba Coach: I keep hearing that a tool approach to lean is wrong, but tools deliver results – how can that be wrong?
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Book Review: Designing the Future
Forget frameworks, processes, rote step methods. Read this book and think back to the “Why?” before the “What?” and “How?”: companies live or die on…
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Review: Designing the Future
In his review of the new book Designing The Future, Michael Ballé points out that it “makes clear the central lean concept in product development:…
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Diving Deeper into the Toyota Way: A Podcast with Jeff Liker
Professor Jeff Liker discusses the new, second edition of his classic book The Toyota Way on WLEI, the LEI podcast.
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Enterprise Transformation
What is a lean enterprise? A lean enterprise is organized to continuously identify what customers value, while adapting to market changes. It constantly seeks more…
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