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The Insourcing Boom
From industrial monument to memorial and then back again, the improving fortunes of GE’s huge Appliance Park plant illustrate the…
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Jim Womack on Lean Tools As Tools for Creativity
In this video, LEI founder and senior advisor Jim Womack answers the question: "What challenge do you think the lean…
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Helpful Coaching? Part One: Who Says What’s Helpful?
David Verble, a lean practitioner and Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member, offers advice for what kind of coaching is helpful…
Read article Who Owns Your A3? (Part One)
LEI Director of Strategy and Operations Mark Reich shares how he learned a key lesson from his time at Toyota:…
Read article Delivering Effectively on a Noble Mission: Community Servings Gets High-Quality Meals to the People Who Need Them
At the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), our partner organizations usually come to us, or a learning relationship develops over time…
Read article How can we reconcile the lean principle of respect for people with our disrespectful atmosphere?
Dear Gemba Coach: My company's lean program stigmatizes competent people as “concrete heads” for disagreeing with the lean coaches, even…
Read article Identifying the Organizational Problem and Opportunity at Community Servings
Lean is first and foremost about learning by doing, so during summer 2012, the LEI team headed to Community Servings…
Read article THE ROLE OF THE LEAN COACH
Here's one for discussion... a useful way to look at Lean coaching.
Watch video Businesses Sharing Processes Face a “Prisoner’s Dilemma”
Managers and executives today face a “prisoner’s dilemma” in which they have to “betray” other departments or companies along a…
Watch video Leadership Q&A: Michael Hoseus, a former general manager at Toyota
From the LEI senior executive series on lean leadership: In this interview from LEI's Executive Series on Lean Leadership, Michael Hoseus, who…
Read article Lean Business-IT Integration, Part Five: Measurement – Finding Our True North
In the fifth article of a five-part series on Lean IT, LEI faculty member Steve Bell addresses measurement. Part One…
Read article Where Lean Leadership Begins
As with all lean practice, leadership begins with grasping the current state. For lean leaders that means understanding the external…
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