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How GE is making things better through lean
Bill McDonogh, HR Lean Transformation Leader at GE Appliance tells us how GE is making things better through lean thinking…
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When a Passion for Caring Becomes a Commitment to Process Improvement: Judy Worth and Karl Ohaus on Lean Thinking for Healthcare Organizations
LEI interviews lean practitioners and co-authors of Perfecting Patient Journeys Judy Worth and Karl Ohaus about the potential for lean…
Read article Part 2: What is the best lean way to understand VALUE (in terms of what our customers want)?
Dear Gemba Coach, What is the best lean way to understand VALUE (in terms of what our customers want)
Read article Follow-up Q & A to the Webinar “Getting to Everyday Improvement: How to Connect the Science and Culture of Problem Solving”
A follow-up Q&A with presenters Judy Worth and Beau Keyte for the Lean Enterprise Institute's webinar on Getting to Everyday Improvement.
Watch video Lean Case Study Interview: Q&A with Chad Vander Wilt, Manager of Transportation and Logistics
Chad Vander Wilt, manager of transportation and logistics at Vermeer, participated in one of the company's first kaizen events as…
Read article Lean management case study series: Lean Partnership with Dealer Network Helps Vermeer Reduce End-to-End Inventory on Top Sellers
A lean transformation had taken heavy-equipment manufacturer Vermeer away from batch manufacturing, but batch ordering by dealers was delaying how…
Read article Part 1: What is the best lean way to understand VALUE (in terms of what our customers want)?
Dear Gemba Coach: What is the best lean way to understand VALUE (in terms of what our customers want)?
Read article Selling Lean
Thousands of people have spent decades trying to disseminate lean management concepts. Many lean proponents can point to results showing…
Read article What is the best advice you ever got about implementing lean principles?
From time to time, the Lean Enterprise Institute asks Lean Community members to share their knowledge and experiences by "sounding…
Read article Same Foundation, New Message: LEI Aims to Make Things Better
Same Foundation, New Message: LEI Aims to Make Things Better At the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), our mission for 15…
Read article How do we get started with lean tools in new product development?
Dear Gemba Coach: My company already has a deep rooted lean culture. However, it would seem that the next evolution…
Read article PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR STRATEGY DEPLOYMENT
This SlideShare is almost equivalent to a workbook. Download it, study it, and discover how your organization can (finally) achieve…
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