The Lean Insider

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In the middle of summer, people are often looking for novels or other summer reading they can take to t...

A successful lean strategy requires transparency. Information should flow freely, and accurate data about performance should be available ...

We lean advocates tend to rant about how so many businesses wrongly believe they need to outsource production to other countries, especial...

Culture change is often the most difficult part of a lean transformation. That may be doubly true in healthcare, where culture – how peopl...

Lean tools used in manufacturing can be applied to other industries. But there may be some difference...

I came across a well-written expression of a lean manufacturing principle recently – in a column about ethics. I am referrin...

Huge numbers of patients, medications, specimens and test results circulate through a hospital, so it is critical that all of them be prop...

And the foreign automaker doing a good job of implementing lean manufacturing is… Fiat. Fiat? Yes, Fiat. The I...

Today I want to discuss the learning packages we sell, and hopefully spark a dialogue about what type...