Tag Archives: Lean Beyond Manufacturing

Making Everyone Whole – from Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute

Jim Womack’s newsletter this month, posted here, very clearly explores one of the underlying reasons that Lean or Operational Excellence initiatives are often difficult to sustain (and sometimes even get off the ground).  Every affected stakeholder -whether the executive leadership team recognize it … Continue reading

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Lean Thinker to Lean Entrepreneur

“Respect for people: Very few businesses start up only on the backs of the sole founder. It takes a team.”  Jamie Flinchbaugh  Just a few days ago Jamie blogged over at LeanBlog about the Lean Entrepreneur. With layoffs mounting at even … Continue reading

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