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Dear Professor, Am I Ever Glad You Covered Lean in Class!
Since 2008, the Lean Enterprise Institute has sponsored the Excellence in Lean Accounting Award to fund scholarships helping pairs of…
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You Can’t Know If You Don’t Know
Recently LEI Chairman and CEO John Shook found an interesting blog by Dr. Helen Kales of the University of Michigan,…
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What Do I Tell My Leaders When Experiments Fail?
When experiments fail, it's natural for a leadership team to get nervous. But in the context of lean, they shouldn't…
Read article Does a lean transformation boost a company’s stock price?
Dear Gemba Coach: You’ve worked with a lot of different companies in the public and private sectors. How have the…
Read article Accounting for the Lean Accounting Award
In this series, we talk to past winners of the Excellence in Lean Accounting Award to learn what impact the…
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Just Trying “Stuff” Is Not A Real Experiment
"Today it seems like you can’t throw a stick of butter without hitting someone who is “running a lean experiment”…
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Ask Art: People are Nervous about Too Much Change, Can I Lead Lean Incrementally?
Resistance to change is a classic part of lean transformation, and it's not uncommon to see efforts to skirt around…
Read article What is leader standard work?
Dear Gemba Coach: Is there such thing as a leader standard work, and, if so, what is it?
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“What Do I Need to Know?”
"What do I need to know?" A simple, but powerful, question to ask at the gemba and beyond. Kelly Moore…
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A3 Thinking Roundup
Following last week's immensely popular Posts on the origins of A3 thinking, LEI Senior Editor Tom Ehrenfeld compiles a collection…
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A Kata Classic
The research that led to the book Toyota Kata ran from 2004 - 2009. The objective was to gain a…
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Rising to the Challenge: The Lean Journey of Phase 2 (video)
In this video, Adam Prime, president of Phase 2 Medical Device Manufacturing shares some insider info on his organization's lean…
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