It’s not another "flavor of the month" or one more program that senior management tries in the quest for greater efficiency. Instead, lean enterprise offers significant company and customer benefits ...

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I attended the 2015 Lean Accounting Summit on October 8-9 th in Jacksonville, Fla., produced by Lean Frontiers, headed up by founder and President Jim Huntzinger. It was two days of information-packed ...

I often hear executives say that localized lean is not enough and they are going to implement enterprise lean. What I believe they are saying is that they have started a lean program, or seen a lean ...

Innovation is often born from individuals who view design as a way to shape forward-thinking ideas. While design alone can’t deliver the promise of innovation, frameworks—such as design thinking and ...

However, lean’s many benefits extend well beyond the assembly line. And, as a new book argues, its qualitative approach to enterprise improvement has never been more relevant. What a Unicorn Knows, by ...

The digital enterprise, which everyone is striving for these days, isn't a single, cohesive venture that is efficiently processing bits and bytes on one end and delivering instantaneous customer ...

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In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...