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Launching the Israel Lean Enterprise

02.09.2011

Last week, I was in Israel to launch the Lean Learning Center‘s partnership with the Israel Lean Enterprise. Israel Lean Enterprise is an affiliate of the Lean Enterprise Institute founded originally by Jim Womack and now lead by John Shook. Several country-specific affiliates have been formed, and Israel’s was only recently formed by Boaz Tamir [...]

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20 years of consulting: Andy Carlino

01.26.2011

Tonight I presented my partner at the Lean Learning Center, Andy Carlino, with the following gift. This year marks some milestones. One is that the Lean Learning Center has been open for 10 years. The other, just as significant, is that we mark 20 years of consulting for Andy. He’s been making contributions to this [...]

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Matt Wrye’s Reflections from the Lean Experience

12.16.2010

At the moment, I am teaching a Lean Experience at our Center for a group of mixed companies that include retail, transportation, micro-brews, and more. Recently, we delivered a private session at the company where lean blogger Matt Wrye works. Matt converted several of his lessons from the class into blog posts. He decided to [...]

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4 ways our value stream training may be different than yours

09.23.2010

Value stream mapping training is almost like six sigma training these days – a dime a dozen. There is so much content out there, and so much of it is the same. At the Lean Learning Center, we’ve always focused on solving problems that had not yet been solved, or solved well. Value stream mapping [...]

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How to read a book in an hour

06.16.2010

For those of you who have taken our Lean Experience, you know we have a very structured multi-step process to kick things off in which approximately 40 people read books, distill them to key points, share them with other, build common themes and ideas and prepare a presentation. A part of that is reading a [...]

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We’re always thinking about value

04.19.2010

“Sponsor our program and reach 100s of prospective clients” – I hear it all the time. We at the Lean Learning Center get calls and emails and mailers to sponsor conferences, programs, special reports, and so on. But we always think in terms of value. I can’t understand what value sponsoring the continental breakfast really [...]

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Why we won’t do 100 kaizens for you

04.08.2010

Every day at the Lean Learning Center is an adventure. We approach our work with clients with an extreme bias towards flexibility. We do have standard work for activities, but how we might engage a client will be different every time. And that starts with a wide range of requests. But some of them we [...]

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The new Lean Learning Center Video Blog

02.21.2010

Andy Carlino and I will be publishing occasional video blogs. We’ve done a couple of topics already, which we only posted as links directly to the video. We’ve recently added this video blog page to the Lean Learning Center website. If you want to stay tuned to when note posts are released, you can subscribe [...]

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Doing More with Less

02.01.2010

This article originally appeared in Lean Progress, the quarterly newsletter of the Lean Learning Center available to subscribers. I also started this thought with a brief video blog in November. What’s your definition of lean? There are many. Personally, I think you shouldn’t focus too much energy on developing definitions. Perhaps the most common definition [...]

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