Articles
Learn more about your selected topics.
How Synchronizing Workflows Eliminates Waste in Development Processes
Two leaders share their secrets of effective value-stream mapping and synchronizing workflows.
Watch video
Ask Art: What Do You Look At in a “Pre-lean” Company?
Art Byrne identifies factors such as excess inventory and floor space, long turnaround times, and numerous other elements to study…
Read article
Why You Need to Understand The Purpose of Purposeful Enterprise
Work with your team to articulate your purpose, as this shared statement will align the many aspects of your pragmatic…
Read article
Why You Should Make Something Better, But Don’t Shoot For Perfection: A Clip From WLEI
Taking small, actionable steps will get you to your ideal state with great efficiency, according to Roger Martin in this…
Watch video
Getting Started with Lean Accounting
Before your organization gets started with lean accounting, the accounting function must first expand its thinking beyond transactions and into practices.…
Read article
Learning From The Sensei Way at Work
Seek perfection by cultivating a daily discipline of mindfulness, whether in lean practice or Buddhist training, writes John Shook in…
Read article
Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 5: Tuckman’s Model of Team Formation
Coaching teams is the topic of this fifth part of an ongoing series on coaching problem-solving by Art Smalley. He…
Watch video
Are You Making Good Products…by Making Good People?
The best way to hone your employees' technical skills and problem-solving chops is to challenge them to make the right…
Watch video
Are You Creating the Right Environment?
Turner Construction is working hard to develop the "right environment" in which productive lean inquiry is baked into the working…
Read article
How Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse Improves Product Development Success
Three leading practitioners share successful examples of how they built learning and knowledge reuse into their development process.
Watch video
How to Save Time and Money in Innovation by Reusing Knowledge
Massive books of knowledge or huge lists weren’t very effective ways of getting the engineers he managed to reuse knowledge,…
Read article
Combat the Ninth Waste of Overthinking
Overthinking should be considered yet another form of waste that true lean practice can identify and eliminate, argues Dan Prock,…
Read article