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Ask Art: How Do You Align Incentives for a Lean Turnaround?
A veteran lean leader offers practical strategies for incentivizing employees during a transition to lean management.
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Getting Started with Lean Thinking and Practice
This brief animation answers the novice lean thinkers’ most common question.
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How to Go to the Gemba: Go See, Ask Why, Show Respect
Here are some guidelines I use when doing a gemba walk as an outside advisor.
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Why Lean Remains a Superior Business Model and Way of Thinking
The lean business model offers an alternative to conventional thinking that enables organizations to gain a competitive advantage by being…
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Lean in One Drawing
An LEI faculty member explains in a brief video why it’s vital to view lean thinking and practice as a…
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Ask Art: Why Should I Focus on My Balance Sheet to Grow Earnings?
Lean practitioners understand that focusing on this financial statement is the best way to achieve higher sales and lower costs.
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How to Improve Your Product Development Process
Members of LEI's Lean Product and Process Development Learning Group share their successful strategies.
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Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
The Cleveland Clinic's lean management and operating system helped it handle the challenges arising from the pandemic. Here are several…
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Serving Up Lean with a Southern-Fried Kick
Haven Hot Chicken used lean thinking and practices to launch a successful restaurant during a pandemic.
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The Healing Power of Lean Product and Process Development in Healthcare
Can Lean Product and Process Development or LPPD, which evolved in the automotive industry, work in healthcare? Paul Paliani, who…
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Respect for People: Making the Job Easier for Workers
How a lean mindset and practices are reining in workplace disruptions, minimizing workers’ physical aches and pains, and improving flow…
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Putting Customers First
The cofounders of a successful startup share how lean thinking and practices helped ensure they kept their focus on the…
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