Is lean still the best answer? Yes. Lean doesn't work for every business or manufacturer—and many companies don't reach the ultimate goal of reducing waste, achieving the best workflow, maximizing ...

But where lean production pushed know-how back onto the shop floor, this pushed the shop floor and its know-how out the door altogether.

Lean for the modern company A new book makes the case for adopting the enduring principles of this ’80s-era process-management system in digital-first businesses.

What are the principles of Lean software development? Lean is a programming methodology built on the principles of lean manufacturing.

Over the past year, in addition to my daily work of scaling Tulip, I’ve co-authored a book called Augmented Lean. In that book, my co-author Trond Arne Undheim and I provide a management ...

Lean tools are designed to reduce Muda in organizations and improve quality control. In other words, Lean tools seek to eliminate processes that aren’t valuable. Lean tools are utilized across many ...

Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories.

Most of you have reviewed articles, read books, attended seminars, and gone to conferences where the author or speaker stressed the need for executive leadership to lead in a lean way. They say your ...

It’s a question that crops up with amazing regularity: What’s next after lean manufacturing? It’s an odd inquiry, really, because it implies that you “finish” lean or toss it aside in favor of the ...