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Creating Lean Healthcare
Ten years ago this month I made a visit to the Mayo Clinic’s large medical complex in Rochester, Minnesota. I…
Read articleWhy Toyota Won and How Toyota Can Lose
Simon & Schuster has just re-issued The Machine That Changed the World, which Dan Jones, Dan Roos, and I co-authored…
Read articleLean Inroads Into Alabama Academia
Despite business’s declared need for graduates experienced with lean concepts, most colleges and universities offer only a lean module or…
View case studyNew Facility, New Flow, and New Levels of Patient Care The wait is over for patients at the Clearview Cancer Institute in Alabama
Dr. Marshall Schreeder treats cancer and treatment processes at the Clearview Cancer Institute in Alabama.
View case studyInterview: Lean Software Development
Lean software practitioners Mary and Tom Poppendieck, authors of Lean Software Development, relate lean concepts to the practical work of…
Read articleLittle and Often
I still encounter a degree of confusion about one of the key mental models that gets in the way of…
Read articleMore Thinking About Lean Transformation
Recently we at the Lean Enterprise Institute have started a new research project trying to answer a simple question: “What…
Read articleWhat I’ve Learned About Planning and Execution
By the time I founded the Lean Enterprise Institute in mid-1997, I had been thinking for years about how organizations…
Read articleAsking Questions
It is always refreshing going to the gemba – actually walking a value stream all the way through an organisation.…
Read articleSell One, Buy One, Make One: Transforming from Conventional to Lean Distribution
Big batches. Long lead times. Infrequent deliveries. Large inventories to cover fluctuations in demand. These aren't characteristics normally attributed to…
View case studyFrom Lean Tools to Lean Management
I’ve been thinking about the challenge of lean transformation for 27 years now, since I started studying Toyota as part…
Read articleGross Domestic Product Verses Gross Domestic Waste
I’ve always been fascinated by how humans count, especially the way we always seem to count the wrong things. Recently…
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