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Why Mass Training In Anything Doesn’t Work
So you’re excited about Lean and want to show your commitment by training all of your people. LEI’s Director of…
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Product Focus = Customer Focus
"Customer-defined value creation is the first principle of lean thinking... But how do you know your hard work will deliver…
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Where Lean Meets Innovation
"Many people see Lean purely as an improvement method, not a total enterprise solution or a new way of doing…
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More Evidence That ThedaCare Rocks
LEI coach Danielle Blais reflects on her recent gemba visit to the lean healthcare organization, Appleton Medical Center in Appleton,…
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A Lean Leap of Faith
Michael Ballé reflects on a core assumption of Lean that is often disregarded and explains why it is worth taking…
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Product and Process Lean
Dear Gemba Coach: Lean product development guys tout the gospel of product focus as core to lean success. No argument…
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Now What Do We Call the Karaoke Bar?
We asked the lean community to sound off on whether or not they favored using Japanese terms in their lean…
Read article Do you use Japanese terms in your lean transformation or purposely avoid them? Why?
Recently we asked our community "Do you use Japanese terms in your lean transformation or purposely avoid them? Why?" Below…
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The Problem with the US Open
What do Roger Federer, ESPN, and the US Open have to do with problem solving?
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After spending two days with Jamie Bonini, Toyota Production System Support Center general manager, a BusinessWeek writer discovers he adds…
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A Connecticut Yankee Machinist in Toyoda’s Castle
“Culture matters,” John Shook tells us in his post about Charles A. Francis, an American who worked for Toyota group…
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Practicing What We Teach
"Do all Lean practitioners practice what they teach?" Maybe, maybe not. Tracey Richardson tries to as much as she can,…
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