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Leading with GTS²
Lean leadership is ultimately about behaving--and in this article Tracey Richardson explains why GTS squared enables leaders to not just…
Read article Let Your A3s Lead
Coach Eric Ethington shares how simply getting started with A3s as a means of engaging others in this process is…
Read article Can Hospitals Reap the Deeper Benefits of Lean?
Dear Gemba Coach: As Health Systems globally wrestle with skyrocketing healthcare costs, many hospitals are jumping on the lean bandwagon,…
Read article Taiichi Ohno’s Birthday and 100 Years of Lean
Today is Taiichi Ohno's birthday. Were he alive, the primary developer of the Toyota Production System would be turning 100…
Read article The Birth of Lean: How Practices, Principles, and Tools Came Together as a System
Toyota was struggling to survive when Taiichi Ohno and a handful of innovators began experimenting with methods that ultimately became…
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Find One Second of Waste
Coach Tracey Richardson shows you how she learned the importance of looking for waste everywhere, and how you can start…
Read article Lean and Forecasting
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m in charge of the forecasting department in my company. My colleagues in production have been doing…
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Lean Thinking Helps City of Chula Vista with Budget Crunch
After laying off 350 employees and still facing a continuing budget shortfall, the City of Chula Vista, CA, faced a…
View case study How should I assess the success of our lean progress?
Dear Gemba Coach: My management is asking for an assessment of our lean progress. How should I do this?
Read article The Five Whys
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m a lean coach and teach A3s in my company. Every lean book mentions “5 why,” and…
Read article Denver Health Becomes Profitable After Using Toyota as a Template
In a story about the lean healthcare success at Denver Health, Governing cites five lean principles championed by the Lean…
Read article An interview with Gary Convis on A3 thinking and lean leadership
Lean veteran Gary Convis explains how the A3 report serves as a flexible tool that develops leaders and aligns important…
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