Environmental Impacts and Lean

Lean, as we teach and practice it, is all about exposing waste in order to make continuous improvement possible, benefiting quality, cost, delivery and people.…

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The Virtue of Simplicity

The Wall Street Journal reported recently on a new trend in retailing: pruning down the huge number of product variations, or stock-keeping units (SKUs), on…

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The Power of the Checklist

Of all the Lean tools in use throughout industry and health care, procedural checklists have received perhaps the least media attention prior to Atul Gawande’s…

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