Embrace these tools for successful and sustained improvements. If you are seeking a quick and successful lean implementation, forget it. Quite simply, lean implementations frequently are referred to ...

Kaizen is coming to Carson City. Kaizen is a system of continuous improvement embedded in the Lean management efficiency city operations, after training, City Manager Nick Marano wants. Business ...

Lean. That’s something for big manufacturers, right? Wrong. The lean philosophy can transform nearly every business—small as well as large, service companies as well as manufacturers. If you haven’t ...

Menu Lean Leaders I Have a Lean Idea Program Lean Terminology Lean Statistics Special thanks to Memory Jogger's "The LEAN Enterprise for Service" and to Lean.Ohio.gov. A process and method for ...

Kaizen, which translates to "improvement" in Japanese, is one of the basic concepts of lean production. It focuses on eliminating waste and increasing productivity through incremental changes in a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Innovation is vital to any successful business, but it can be challenging to achieve. Nearly ...

If you are part of a service organization, how often have you heard someone say, “We can’t do lean here. Lean is just for manufacturing, isn’t it? We’re not some kind of widget-making assembly line, ...

Whether you are seeking to foster a lean mindset or work within an enterprise that is seeking a lean transformation, UTSA offers a variety of certification tracks customized to meet your learning ...

Michigan Tech’s Lean transformation uses an embedded Lean practitioner model that has our frontline supervisors and employees solving problems and making improvements. In this model, the Office of ...

Timely radiographic studies are essential to oncology care. At our institution, a safety net hospital in a large metropolitan area, baseline assessment determined that the overwhelming majority of ...