The Lean Insider

One sign of the growing interest in healthcare in improvement strategies is provided in a recent article from Health Leaders magazine . The...

While lean principles can be applied to non-manufacturing situations, not every lean tool used in manufacturing has value outside the shop f...

Which company is leaner: Dell or Toyota? Dick Schonberger offers a surprising answer. Schonberger is a consultant and a well-known figure in...

A lean approach is critical to any strategy of sustainability. But lean alone won’t be enough. And preserving the environment is a long, uph...

I’ve just returned from the regional conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence , held last week in San Diego. It was an enj...

Even the best, most flexible lean production systems may not be able to cope with sudden, dramatic shifts in consumer demand. Case in point:...

Recently, I wrote a skeptical posting about a hospital that was installing a huge machine to dispense medication in its pharmacy. What conc...

Much of the discussion about applying a lean approach to healthcare focuses on reducing or eliminating medical errors – for example, giving ...

Process change is not always easy, a lesson learned recently by admissions officials of the New York City schools system. According to The N...

The latest Harbour Report is out, showing gains in productivity by the U.S. automakers and a narrowing of the gap in productivity between U....