Lean production and labor : empowerment and exploitation / Steve Babson -- Unions and management by stress / Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter -- Workers' roles in lean production : the implications for ...

If someone asked you for your “elevator definition” of lean, what would you say? The answer you’d give is a product of the messaging you’ve heard with respect to lean over the years. Rick recently got ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Entrepreneurs are obsessed with productivity, and for good reason. Most startups work with small teams on short timelines, which means ...

We need to think about redefining work. Until we—anyone who wishes to bring about organizational change—redefine our business’s actual value-creating work, we haven’t made any meaningful changes. You ...

Single-piece production is a staple of lean manufacturing. Microlab, a manufacturer of high-performance components such as directional couplers and filters for RF and microwave distribution systems, ...

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

No self-respecting, manufacturing conference covering a broad spectrum of topics these days would be without a session or two on Lean Manufacturing—which continues to be a hot industry topic. Such was ...

You might even catch the hopeful phrasing: “We’re a lean team.” The words echo from the top of the corporate hierarchy and even into the annual reports. There’s a quiet pride in those words. The ...

Changes were also made within the hospital to improve communication and share information. In 2008, the hospital established its Mark A. Watson Center for Operations Excellence, which uses Lean Six ...