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Enduring Lessons from The Birth of Lean
Lean was never conceived as a new and comprehensive system designed to replace conventional enterprise. Rather, as shown in The…
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Growing from a Tactical Practitioner to a Strategic Thinker
One helpful way to move from being a tactical leader to a strategic one is to suggest that a better…
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Tapping Technology to Boost the Power of Lean: A Talk with Jeff Liker and Jim Morgan
What principles should guide lean thinkers as they introduce digital tools into their work? How about people, processes, and purpose,…
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When the Toyota Way Meets Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is not a disruptive force that makes TPS irrelevant, but rather can be an enabler that builds on…
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The Art of Lean: Use These Tools to Help You Improve a Process, Part 1
Learn about this four-step approach that will help you “pinpoint the tricky parts” of a process as you work to…
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Why You Should Link Your Hoshin Kanri and A3 Management Processes
An organization that integrates a robust long-term-oriented strategy deployment process with a daily management process achieves greater performance gains than…
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Dueling Methods: 8D and A3
One of the scores of questions sent in by attendees at our recent webinar on the A3 problem-solving process was…
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Ask Art: Why Implement Lean During A Pandemic?
Implementing lean during this pandemic will allow many more companies to emerge from this economic crisis in far better shape…
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Changing Routines
In this article exploring ways to help lead positive change, Josh Howell asks: is pursuing understanding and conviction part of…
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How to Develop Healthy Habits for Mindful Coaching
Powerful lean coaches help others create productive habits that over time produce a type of "muscle memory" that forms a…
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A Radical Redesign of Making Crudito — and All Restaurant Kitchens
Using animations of a few basic continuous improvement tools, Matt Savas, a team leader at the Lean Enterprise Institute and…
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Beware the Comforts of Waste
After a major move, lean thinker Rose Heathcote reflected that with lean thinking comes the responsibility to look inward at…
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