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The Management Brief | Lean Improvement Group Helps Appliance Maker Reshore Products
In this edition of The Management Brief, Josh Howell and Mark Reich talk with Rich Calvaruso, Senior Director of the…
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The Design Brief | What Most Companies Miss about the Role of Chief Engineers
For this month’s Design Brief issue on the role of the chief engineer and its connection to whether or not…
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Lean AI Journal | Join the Lean AI Webinar
Discover how LEI is using AI to scale lean coaching, sharpen critical thinking, and help teams solve problems faster—without replacing…
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The Management Brief | TPS Taken to Companies across the UK
In this edition of The Management Brief, Simon Rowley and Julian Ball from Toyota’s Lean Management Centre (TLMC) join LEI’s…
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Excellence Isn’t an Accident: Mentorship as the Engine of Mastery
In this edition of the Design Brief, we explore why excellence isn’t an accident—it’s built deliberately. Behind Toyota’s decades of…
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A Toyota Take on Taking TPS to Others
In this edition of The Management Brief, LEI’s Josh Howell and Mark Reich talk with Jamie Bonini, President of Toyota’s…
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How I’ve Aimed to Share the Uncommon Knowledge of Lean Product and Process Development
In this edition of The Design Brief: From factory floors to the classroom, LPPD’s core lesson stands—learn by doing, then…
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Accelerating Lean Transformation with AI — Without Losing the Plot
In the latest edition of The Lean AI Journal, Tyson Heaton explores how organizations can avoid AI “quick fix” traps…
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Lean Is about the Work: Enhance Value-Creating Work to Truly Transform End-to-End, Value-Stream Performance
This Management Brief issue turns the spotlight to the work itself. Articles from Jacob Stoller, Josh Howell, and LEI senior…
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From Skeptic to Believer: My Journey into Lean and AI
In this edition of The Lean AI Journal, Art Smalley shares how two years of experiments and breakthroughs shifted his…
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Innovation as a Core Capability: Sebastian Fixson on Why Leaders Need Lean Product and Process Development
In this edition of The Design Brief, Sebastian Fixson, PhD, of Babson College, joins Jim Morgan of LEI to discuss…
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Redefining Work
In this edition of the Management Brief, LEI Senior Advisor John Shook reminds us that the essence of lean is…
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