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Annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards 2014

LMJ editorial director, Jon Tudor, provides insight and overview following his attendance at the Annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards on 6 February in Leeds.

The conference was superb and highlighted just how far lean healthcare has progressed over the past two years.

Published: 26 March 2014 3:21pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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John Bicheno on The New Industrial Revolution

John Bicheno, LMJ editorial board member and course director at the University of Buckingham, shares his thoughts after reading Peter Marsh’s 2013 book The New Industrial

Peter Marsh is the former manufacturing editor of The Financial Times and is in a unique position to have written this overview of world manufacturing – how it has developed and where it is going.

Published: 26 March 2014 1:52pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Bill Bellows on Profit Beyond Measure

H. Thomas Johnson lies at the forefront of a worldwide community of business thinkers who are unveiling the limitations, as well as assumptions, of the

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Published: 26 March 2014 1:35pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Cafés, restaurants and lean

Editorial board member, Sarah Lethbridge, examines lean’s role in the “anticafé”, an establishment that charges customers for the time they spend in the café rather

Lean moves through sectors in waves.

Published: 26 March 2014 1:19pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Relax! Everything will work out

LMJ editor, Victoria Fitzgerald, caught up with lean consultant and 2013 Shingo Research Award recipient, Karen Martin, to talk about the attraction of lean, implementing

Lean Management Journal: Can you explain
your background?

Published: 26 March 2014 12:29pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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Global developments in the aerospace industry

Paul Hardiman, from SMMT Industry Forum, outlines the growth patterns of the global aerospace manufacturing market and how the UK is employing lean strategies to

READ ABOUT:

  • The growth rate of the global aerospace manufacturing market
  • How lean manufacturing and Six Sigma has cut waste in the production process
  • How lean initiatives will accelerate in 2014 as companies in the defence sector seek to maintain margins and profitability

By Paul Hardiman

In 2014 the global aerospace manufacturing market is expected to maintain the overall 5% growth rate that has been seen in 2012 and 2013.

Published: 26 March 2014 11:32am
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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It’s a marathon, not a sprint

What do you want your future business to be and look like? Editorial board member Joseph Paris outlines the frank and honest conversations needed to

By Joseph Paris

We have often heard lean described as a “journey, not a destination” – meaning the pursuit of an optimal business condition is what is important and an ideal state is never to be realised.

Published: 26 March 2014 10:56am
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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The lean culture club

Lean expert and founder of Arbed Solutions, Debra Levantrosser, discusses changing what she calls “the toughest nut to crack” – the culture of an organisation, for

It’s not what you think.

Published: 25 March 2014 4:50pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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The folly of sustaining the gains of lean

Editorial board member, Jeff Liker, discusses the futility of sustaining the gains from lean projects and elaborates on the importance of ensuring continuous improvement routines

THE PROBLEMATIC CONCEPT OF SUSTAINING THE GAINS

The most common problem observed in companies adopting lean practices is focused projects led by lean experts that produce stunning results on paper, however, within three to six months self-destruct.

Published: 25 March 2014 4:23pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
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