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Spring Spotlight: Creating the Purposeful Enterprise
Information and insights that explore the many facets of this fundamental lean concept. A compilation of the articles published as…
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Transforming a Food Desert to Food Oasis—During a Pandemic
How a group of volunteers used lean thinking and practices to make things better in their community -- and overcome…
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A Variety of Perspectives is Good For Your Products
The best product development teams attract, promote, and celebrate diversity of thought, asserts Kevin Nolan, president & CEO of GE…
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How Stalwart Lean Leadership and Classic Lean Practices Yield Operational and Clinical Excellence
Organizations can achieve the seemingly impossible when they have steadfast lean leadership, a sharp focus on purpose, and experience applying…
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Fight for Your Lean Team
Managers, supervisors and coaches should mindfully support the storming and norming that teams require in order to grow an existing…
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Development is a Team Sport
Experts and executives join Jim Morgan in explaining how collaboration is vital to new product, process, and services development. Plus,…
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Why Hoshin Kanri is a Better Approach to Planning and Execution
Effective hoshin kanri builds on traditional strategy deployment by including key questions that conventional models fail to include, argues Pascal…
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Once More: What is Strategy Deployment, and Why Should You Care?
Strategy deployment helps keep lean practitioners focused on the prize—creating value for the customer, says Pascal Dennis in the foreword…
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3 Lessons Maersk Learned from Adopting Hoshin Kanri
Deploying hoshin kanri at Maersk was challenging, recounts Agne Nainyte, who shares the details of this work that helped the…
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Seeking the Right Problems to Solve: Catch the WLEI Podcast with Author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
Learning how to frame your problem will help you solve it, suggests author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg. He describes how in this…
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What’s Your Problem? Framing for Success with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg on the WLEI Podcast
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg makes a bold promise in his new book, What’s Your Problem? (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.) He seeks…
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Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 1: Coaching Problem-Solving
Art Smalley is back and ready to teach all about problem-solving, this time with an emphasis on coaching. He starts…
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