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Tools Are Not the Purpose
Coach Eric Ethington shares his experience about learning how A3 thinking must always be the guiding principle when using A3…
Read article Engineering Checklists
Dear Gemba Coach: How do I apply standardized work to product development?
Read article Was Steve Lean?
I don’t know that much about Apple. The only gemba I've visited are lots of Apple stores (I don't know…
Read article A3: Tool or Process? Both….
Coach Tracey Richardson explains why an A3 is both a useful tool that captures and shares the results of an…
Read article How Many Whys Should I Ask?
Coach Tracey Richardson explains just how many whys to ask when conducting 5 Why analysis.
Read article Are lean principles universal?
Dear Gemba Coach: Can we really consider Lean principles as Universal? I am currently working on a case study about…
Read article Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
Surgeon Atul Gawande explains why he got a coach and why everyone’s work would benefit from having one.
Read article How to Change a Culture: Lessons From NUMMI
The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review honored LEI CEO John Shook with the 2011 Beckhard Memorial Award for the…
Read article Should we have our own TPS “house”?
Dear Gemba Coach: My management wants to build our own version of the TPS (Toyota Production System) house in order…
Read article Lean Business-IT Integration, Part One: Who Wants to Go Talk to IT About This One?
In this, the first of a five part series, LEI faculty member Steve Bell begins with the importance of lean…
Read article Why Create Poka-yokes—and Why Disconnect Them?
I’m a manufacturing engineer and since I have started participating in kaizen workshops, I have noticed that production supervisors tend…
Read article The Lean IT Challenge
View slides from the Lean IT workshop showing the roles IT can play in a successful lean transformation.
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