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Implementing an improvement program like Lean is like cooking.

Implementing an improvement program like Lean is like cooking. Cooking is easy (if taste doesn’t matter). First you decide what you want to eat. Get all the ingredients together then toss it about and out comes the food! In a rather similar manner, implementing Lean in businesses and operations is just like cooking. Put all […]

Making a wasteful step more efficient is not improvement!

Some might think that lean is the same as any other continual improvement programs that they had previously experienced. In this article, I want to highlight the most important point about lean. This is the only thing that separate lean from all other improvement programs. Historically, continual improvement programs look at improving steps in a process […]