Yooz reports CFOs in 2025 will focus on lean financial operations to cut costs, enhance security, and drive growth amid ...

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Eliminate waste in coal, gas, or nuclear power plant construction through a holistic application of lean principles. “Lean thinking” is a set of principles that work to eliminate waste and create new ...

LEAN started in the automobile manufacturing industry and has spread to nearly every industry in every country. LEAN is how companies bring continuous improvement to life. It’s much simpler to ...

Companies adopting a Lean philosophy strive to remove or shorten time spent on activities that the customer doesn’t value. For example, although steps like estimating and makeready are thought of as ...

Focusing on problems in the current state drains our energy, while building a positive future vision to strive for builds positive energy for change. In the 1990s while first learning about Japanese ...

We continue in our series on Lean Construction and the seven major “wastes” found in our effort to construct quality that is safe, productive and profitable. Let’s examine the waste that can come from ...

Under Lean Thinking, waste or muda for the Japanese is the perpetual villain for any manager worth their salt.

Say you run into a friend and after catching up for a while, he shares he's recently self-diagnosed a highly contagious skin disease that "looks like what Ser Jorah contracted during the fifth Season ...

My previous column ("Next Generation Lean: Lean Processes Need to Continuously Improve") laid out the premise that there is a significant disconnect between Lean results, namely that while there are a ...