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Does This Man Look Efficient?
After spending two days with Jamie Bonini, Toyota Production System Support Center general manager, a BusinessWeek writer discovers he adds value just 3% of the…
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On the Job with Tom Root, Managing Partner of Zingerman's Mail Order
Spoiler alert! The food you just ate is not fresh. It was "sourced" longer ago than you'd imagine. And since that time, it's been handled…
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Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy
A new MBA elective course at Harvard, called Launching Technology Ventures, uses a lot of concepts from the "lean startup" methodology, which is based on avoiding waste…
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The Lean IT Challenge
View slides from the Lean IT workshop showing the roles IT can play in a successful lean transformation.
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The Successful, Continuous Beat of Daily Management
Daily management isn’t just for the shop floor. In this edition of The Management Brief, Josh Howell and Joe Seestadt explore how a simple yet…
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