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Executive Leadership
2024 Lean Summit Keynote — Scaling Agile Through Lean Principles
Sharing how the world is making things better through lean thinking and practice.
Executive Leadership
Understanding the Many Facets of ‘the A3’
A review of the many ways lean practitioners refer to this core lean practice reveals its versatility — and why it plays an essential role in cultivating an organization’s lean thinking and culture.
Article by Patricia Panchak
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Operations IS Your Customer
Discover how redefining operations as the primary customer of engineering can transform product development, enhance collaboration, and drive unprecedented improvements in quality and efficiency.
Article by Steve Shoemaker
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Streamlining Hope: How Lean Process Design Dramatically Cut Chemotherapy Wait Times
Article by Carlos Frederico Pinto, MD
Executive Leadership
Getting Started with Hoshin Kanri: Answers to Common Questions
Article by Lean Enterprise Institute and Mark Reich
Executive Leadership
The Management Brief: Access the First Collection
Article by Marcia Brey, Josh Howell and Mark Reich
Coaching
Podcast by Alli Kulp, Matthew Savas and Emily Swaney
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2024 Lean Summit Keynote — Scaling Agile Through Lean Principles
Video by Fabrice Bernard
Executive Leadership
Video by Jackie Gerhart, MD, Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, John Toussaint and Lucas Zier, MD, MS
Operations
What is the Theory of Constraints, and How Does it Compare to Lean Thinking?
Article by Sergio Rattner