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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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Building a Learning Organization with Kata
Baptist Memorial Hospital uses kata to build an "army of problem solvers." Here's the "meta-routine" they follow and a few…
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How to Improve Decision-Making to Accelerate Product Development
GE Appliance’s next-generation dishwasher development team created a decision-flow mapping process to eliminate project delays.
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Ask Art: What is the Best Lean Leadership Development Program?
Leaders learn and adopt lean thinking the same way everyone else does: by practicing it. Here are a few ideas…
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Managing the Work from Startup to Scaleup
How one company tapped lean thinking and practice to design its business management system — and as a countermeasure to…
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How Lean Thinking and Practices Improves Disaster Recovery Efforts
This enhanced presentation explores how a disaster recovery organization uses lean thinking and practices to accelerate rebuilding efforts.
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Who, or What, Is Your Company Investing In?
A frontline supervisor's stellar work resolving a significant problem prompts a question for leaders: Will you have technology work for…
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Building A Diverse and Capable Workforce from the Bottom Up
Combining lean thinking and practices with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives builds more inclusive, engaged, and resilient businesses. Here's…
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Lessons from a Chief Engineer on Starting and Sustaining Lean Product and Process Development
A Caterpillar executive shares his insights on applying LPPD principles.
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Creating a System to Achieve Ambitious Goals: A WLEI Podcast
A lean veteran describes a system that can help leaders take their organizations to the next level.
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Insights on Why, When, and How Value-Stream Mapping is a Vital Part of Continuous Improvement
A selection of Lean Posts offers the information leaders need to maximize the benefit of using this powerful lean practice.
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Ask Art: What’s So Important About Reducing Setup Times?
An overview of the strategic and tactical benefits of eliminating waste from changeovers demonstrates why it should be a focus…
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