The Lean Insider

For the past two years, I have posted lists of Lean New Year’s Resolutions. The lists from 2006 and 2007 could apply to any situation. Thi...

For those who believe lean should apply to everything: Designer Daniel Harper has created what he calls I-lean furniture, promoted as being...

Like a lot of people, I go through an end-of-year ritual of sending donations to a variety of charities I support. The end of the year ser...

I wrote previously about a kaizen event I attended recently at Food Sciences Corp. in Mt. Laurel , New Jersey . I wanted to describe...

I find several kinds of irony in the fact that, of the Big Three American automakers, Ford is the only one that looks like it may survive ...

Determining where to focus your improvement efforts can be a challenge, but an important one. That idea was reinforced for me recently by ...

This guest posting is written by James Jelinek and Fletcher Birmingham , co-authors of Quick Changeover Simplified: The Manager’s Guide to...

A key principle of lean is respect for people, and I generally regard Toyota as better than most of its competitors in following that princi...

One of the features of a lean supply chain is the close working relationship between different companies in the chain – a relationship tha...

Remember the famous statement by an advertising executive who said he knew half of his advertising was wasted, but he didn’t know which ha...