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Customers Should Determine the Businesses of the Future, Not the 1%
"We set up entrepreneurs to fail when we put all the emphasis on pitch day and the amount of money…
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Lean Transformation Starts with a Learning Culture
After attending a Lean Applied to Sales seminar, Tina Roach and Pete Mangan of ProMed Molded Products knew they needed…
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Which Will Prevail: Batch Thinking or Worker Leadership?
For most of two centuries, batch and queue production was the golden key that opened the factory doors of mass…
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Learn from the Error, Every Time
It's an awful feeling when you think everything is going just fine and then discover you've made an error. But…
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Jim Morgan on Creating the Future
Jim Morgan speaks about creating the future at the 2014 Lean Summit in Brazil.
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John Drogosz on Product Development
John Drogosz gives a talk on lean product development from the University of Michigan.
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Super Bowl 2014: It’s All About the Coaching
LEI Senior Editor Tom Ehrenfeld gets ready for the super bowl the only way he knows how: looking for lean…
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The Problem with Batch Logic
Enterprise Resource Planning processes use economic order quantities (=EOQ), also known as batch logic, to calculate what is required. This…
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Kaizen Power
In his latest piece for the Post, Michael Ballé explains why "humble 100x1% is better than 1x100% kaizen." This kind…
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In TPM, Isn’t it needlessly costly to replace parts that are working fine? What do you think?
Dear Gemba Coach: I have a question about Total Productive Maintenance. My management has hired a TPM consultant who makes…
Read article Leadership Q&A: Gary Peterson, executive vice president, supply chain and operations, O.C. Tanner
From the LEI senior executive series on lean leadership:Gary Peterson, executive vice president, supply chain and production at O.C. Tanner, describes…
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Overcoming the Challenges of Lean in Public Health
"Continuous improvement in public health has potential for optimizing quality gains in disease surveillance, public health emergency response, health promotion,…
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