Standard Work – Can Your Business Afford Anything Less?

Standard work is a concept at the heart of the Lean business management approach. It is the simple, but powerful idea that every task that...

Get in the Back to School Spirit with Lean Training

I need a new outdoor rug for my patio, so I wandered to the far back corner of Target that just a couple of weeks ago was full of grills,...

How Customer Driven Organizations use Value Stream Mapping

Value stream mapping is a system of visualizing the connection of every action or process required to produce a product to the value it...

Lean Technology: An Oxymoron?

You Don't Have to Choose

In the Lean community, there are many who warn against the use of Lean technology, if not bad-mouthing it...

Continuous Improvement: A Key Part of a Lean Management System

Continuous Improvement Never Ends

A few years ago I was talking with the CEO of a large US corporation about Lean management. I asked him...

Good Business Practices are Lean Business Practices

Lean is All Around Us

Think you don’t use Lean practices in your daily life, in your work, in your business? Think again. Lean is all...