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How Lean Thinking Improves Financial Results While Avoiding Traditional Cost Cutting
In July, Nick Katko and I presented a webinar for LEI called “How to Use Lean Accounting to Help Design…
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8 Steps to Radical Quality Improvement
An uncompromising quality improvement zealot shares a favorite method for radical quality advances, gleaned from decades of experience improving facilities…
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Continually Improving the Strategic Planning and Execution Process
Bill MacPherson, managing director of Mercer Celgar, a division of Mercer International, describes how adopting hoshin kanri catalyzes and ensures…
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Coach’s Corner: How To Put People First Using Lean Practices
A veteran lean product and process development coach explains what leaders must do to create a people-first culture.
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How Toyota Built its Culture Around the World
A new book takes a deep dive into a more effective way for senior leaders to manage talent to consistently…
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Breaking the Cycle of Ineffective Strategic Planning and Execution
Bill MacPherson, managing director of Mercer Celgar, a division of Mercer International, describes why hoshin kanri is a better approach…
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People-First Leadership: A Conversation Between Jim Morgan and Alan Mulally
Leading through challenging times means enhancing your work process and always looking to improve people's lives. Putting people first is…
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How Lean Can Help You Go Green
How to use lean thinking and practices to create sustainable business practices.
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Why the Most Important Product Leaders Can Develop is Their Team
While new technology and innovative ideas may seem paramount to achieving development excellence, it's really the people within the teams…
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Ask Art: What Targets Should We Set When Launching a Lean Turnaround?
Here's why setting results-oriented targets instead of process-oriented targets will doom your lean improvement efforts, says Art Byrne.
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What is Lean Leadership and How Do You Get it?
Jeff Liker, author of The Toyota Way, describes what organizations need to do to develop their leaders' lean leadership capabilities.
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Leadership Lessons from Rivian: a Clip from WLEI
In a clip from one of our most popular podcasts, LEI President Josh Howell talks with electric car manufacturer Rivian's…
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