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Leading from the front

On a recent trip to Yeo Valley group’s Crewkerne dairy in England’s south west, LMJ’s managing editor, Callum Bentley was shown first hand, the benefits

By Callum Bentley

On a foggy morning in December I drove down the driveway past two sprawling fields of solar panels at the entrance to Yeo Valley’s Crewkerne Dairy in south west England, in the heart of the Somerset countryside.

Published: 21 February 2014 3:07pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Annual European Conference 2014

Managing Lean Across Borders

The Lean Management Journal invites you to the fifth annual on 25th and 26th June 2014.

Published: 21 February 2014 2:45pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Small and mighty becomes mightier

Editorial board member Gwendolyn Galsworth comments on last month’s article: Do it in the bathroom, commending prolific inventor, lean innovator, author and founder and president

By Gwendolyn Galsworth

Paul Akers is nothing if not wildly enthusiastic about people, learning, and continuous improvement.

Published: 20 February 2014 4:50pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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A lean course in higher education

Stephen Yorkstone, a lean leader in higher education at Edinburgh Napier University, examines the developing role of lean as a cost cutting measure in UK

By Stephen Yorkstone

Motivations for lean in higher education are familiar.

Published: 20 February 2014 3:05pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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One on one with John Shook

LMJ Editorial Director, Jon Tudor, meets chairman and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute, John Shook, for the second in our One on one series.

By Jon Tudor

Mark Donnelly, Global Head of Operational Excellence, Lonza Biologics: Of all the companies you have visited and researched, what’s the biggest contributing factor to lean implementation and sustainability?

Published: 20 February 2014 2:16pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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A class of its own

Milliken European Airbag Products recently received one of the most coveted operational excellence and lean accolades in the UK, the World Class Manufacturing award, announced

By Callum Bentley

The scope and diversity of worldwide manufacturing and innovation company, Milliken Company, is staggering.

Published: 20 February 2014 1:33pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Cultural transformation: how visuality does it

February’s LMJ proves that the application of lean is a powerful tool in contributing to the turnaround of a company, however, there is a stark

By Gwendolyn D.

Published: 19 February 2014 11:01am
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Changing cultures; changing mindsets

LMJ caught up with Martin Clocherty, manufacturing systems director at Hayward Tyler, one of the oldest manufacturing companies in the UK at their Luton factory,

“Over the years we have had many attempts from different management teams coming in and trying to take the business forward and drive it into the future.

Published: 19 February 2014 9:50am
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Casting your own burning platform

Jeremy Butler, director of management consultancy firm One Wigwam, reflects on implementing lean to regenerate his family’s 50-year-old engineering business. Butler emphasises how the workforce

By Jeremy Butler

Back in the late 1990s I came back to my family’s engineering business in the Midlands, having spent time working in the US and London.

Published: 18 February 2014 4:32pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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