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Celebrating a Lean Culture
Imagine focusing over 175,000 people around the idea of adding value for the customer in every process, product and tool – eliminating everything else. This is the essence of Lean. When a company can...
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Kaizen Culture: The Secret to Sustained Success
Why do some companies consistently outperform their competition? Looking back in time, only 39 companies from the 1917 Forbes 100 list still existed in 1987 and only 18 actually stayed in the Forbes...
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Is Your Office Lean?
A Lean process is defined as one that uses only minimum resources to add value to a service or product. Applied in a transactional environment, or an environment outside of the manufacturing floor,...
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Sharing Best Practices
Best practices, activities that most effectively deliver an outcome superior to other solutions, provide the most efficient and effective way of accomplishing a proven task for large numbers of...
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Behaving Badly – Can Lean Continuous Improvement be Sustained?
Lean — one word that instantly evokes the idea of efficiency, swiftness and strength. As a management style and corporate philosophy, it can help companies re-make themselves to achieve more profits,...
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Lean Product Design
One of the most pronounced impacts of the Lean process is during the design phase of a product’s life cycle. Using Lean process techniques during design helps engineers document potential areas of...
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Lean vs. Six Sigma
There is an ongoing debate in the world of continuous improvement: Lean vs. Six Sigma. Both methodologies are focused on solving problems and both have been wildly successful (think Toyota, Motorola...
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Lean Accelerates Sustainable Enterprise
Photo: James Jordan, Creative Commons Licensed Over the last decade, the consumer drive for green products has pushed environmentally conscious ideologies to the forefront of company values, goals and...
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Taking a New Approach to Responsible Minerals Sourcing
Everyday, consumers face hundreds of choices. Whether it’s choosing organic produce, farm-raised meat or green cleaning products, companies are seeing the demand from consumers who make...
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