Keeping Classroom Technologies Functioning: Application of lean principles...
Organizations that repair or remanufacture goods face unique challenges not common to the original production of a product. While any kind of demand is somewhat unpredictable, repair operations face...
View ArticleFrom Agile Fatigue to Experimentation: Finding a Better Way in Development
Agile, lean, TQM, design thinking—there is no shortage of management methodologies promising to revolutionize the way we work and achieve results. There is little doubt that each of these methods has...
View ArticleRefreshing Lean: Attracting the Next Generation of Practitioners
By Future of People at Work Symposium Participants and Claude AI*This article is the fifth in a series exploring the key insights and discussions from the recent Future of People at Work Symposium, a...
View ArticleForeword to Daily Management to Execute Strategy
Books about management may be the most ubiquitous of all business titles. But Daily Management by José Roberto Ferro and Robson Gouveia proves that we needed at least one more. Daily Management...
View ArticleSolving Loneliness in Hospitals with AI and Robotics: a Conversation with...
Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This podcast was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Daily Management to Execute Strategy
We receive signals that something is not right more often than we would like. Despite real evidence coming to light, we are reluctant to acknowledge that we have a problem and that we need to do...
View ArticleRedesigning Patient Pathways: a Conversation with Dr. Carlos Frederico Pinto
Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This podcast was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief,...
View ArticleHoshin Kanri Ensures Frontline Problem-Solving within Lean Management
Last week Josh Howell, President of LEI and my colleague for more than 10 years, started a new series for our community called “The Management Brief” that will draw upon our experience in and out of...
View ArticleThe Long Journey to Lean Management
One of the most important discoveries of the Lean Community over the past 30 years has been that lean techniques cannot create sustainable lean enterprises without a lean management system. And we are...
View ArticleThe Value of Key Performance Indicators in a Lean Transformation
How do we measure our progress in an organization? How do we know what type of indicators we are using and what do they tell us about the current state of our processes? How do we know when we get...
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