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Yes, You Can Teach Lean in Engineering Schools

NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – The author visits a private engineering school to learn about their approach to…

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8 Key Lessons from Toyota

ROUND-UP – Our editor looks back at the most insightful articles Planet Lean has published on the most…

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Lean Transformations: Failure and Misconceptions

FEATURE – Drawing inspiration from his research into the causes of failure of transformations, the author discusses how…

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Lean Learning, Reinvented

INTERVIEW – From hospitals to start-ups, lean principles have been applied far beyond their origins at Toyota. This…

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How Hoshin is Giving Us a Common Purpose

CASE STUDY – This 104-year-old Chilean provider of integral solutions for the mining industry has turned to hoshin…

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Lean and the Digitization of Benin’s Public Administration

INTERVIEW – In today’s Q&A, we learn how Lean Thinking is supporting the digital transformation of the public…

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The Theory of Lean Transformation

FEATURE – In this compelling theoretical piece, the author reminds us how in a lean organization relations are…

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Operation Honeybee

FEATURE – To consistently identify new and better ways of doing things can breathe new life into a…

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Deploying Strategic Metrics in Operations

FEATURE – Using the example of a chain of pizzerias, the author explains why “slicing the elephant” is…

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Lean Ain’t Fishy

CASE STUDY – This Norwegian firm learned that allowing every person and area to move up their own…

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