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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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Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
An approach to the design of products and services in which developers consider sets of ideas rather than single ideas. To do this, developers: Use…
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7 Wastes
The 7 wastes are Taiichi Ohno’s categorization of the seven major wastes typically found in mass production: Overproduction: Producing ahead of what’s actually needed by…
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Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook on "Outsourcing: The Big Lie"
Lean Enterprise Institute Chairman and CEO John Shook will explore the problems and consequences of the race to find the lowest-cost provider in his keynote…
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Education Entrepreneur Valeriia Zabolotna Joins the Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute
The innovative and experienced education executive will oversee — and is charged with reinventing — LEI’s education strategy.
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OU ISE students use ‘Lean Thinking’ to improve operations, optimize space at Humble Design warehouse
The first grant from a new scholarship fund established by the Boston-based nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is helping Midwest engineering students improve operations at…
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Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster
"Lean isn't about being cheap [but is about] being less wasteful and still doing things that are big," says Eric Ries, an entrepreneur whose projects include There Inc.…
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Becoming the Change: Talking Healthcare Transformation with Kim Barnas and John Toussaint on the WLEI Podcast
In this WLEI podcast, Becoming the Change authors Kim Barnas and John Toussaint discuss the personal challenges facing healthcare leaders who are committed to the…
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Becoming the Change with John Toussaint and Kim Barnas
Lean has always promised great improvements for health care providers, but has there been a personal element that has been lacking to date? In this…
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