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Coach’s Corner: Designing the Entire Value Stream From Concept to Product End Life
Creating an environmentally-conscious value stream can be done with LPPD principles in mind. Just ask Katrina Appell, who explains how…
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How to Wipe Out IT’s “Technical Debt” with PDCA
Besides bonds, bank loans, and other types of corporate debt, your company also holds "technical debt," the burden of future…
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How to Use Lean Accounting to Help Design Profitable Value Streams
How establishing relevant financial metrics at the start of a new product or process development project helps create higher performance…
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Create Profitable Value Streams
Why does lean product development focus on building profitable value streams? LEI Senior Advisor John Shook explains in this month's…
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How Lean Thinking and Practice Helped Put Shots in Arms, Part 1: Building the Process
Does lean thinking work during a crisis? An in-depth review of its contribution to the design and management of Ohio…
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How Designing Value Streams, Not Just Products, Creates Competitive Advantage
TechnipFMC and Pella Corporation leaders describe how lean development practices helped them develop better products, create profitable value streams and…
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Thinking About Introducing A3 Problem-Solving? Think Twice if Leadership Isn’t Engaged
Your organization’s leadership doesn’t support introducing the A3 problem-solving process, but why not introduce it into your unit or area…
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Imagining A World Without Email with Cal Newport
A typical work day is already packed, but is there waste that can be removed? WLEI host Tom Ehrenfeld and…
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Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 8: Toyota Coaching Practices
Art describes some of the fundamental principles of Toyota coaching practices.
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Ask Art: Why Should I Convert to a Pull System?
Deliver more value to your customers by converting your business to a pull system and connecting demand directly to your…
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10 Golden Rules for Radical Quality Improvement
What you need to know and do to lead your team to make step-change improvements to quality.
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Why Creating Better Jobs and Improving Work Matters
How improving your work environment is vital to improved business outcomes.
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