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Ian Machan

Lean’s future: toys or degrees?

Ian Machan discusses what the best ideas for developing lean are. Would we best served in investing in the future or seeking to better what

Ian Machan discusses what the best ideas for developing lean are.

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Tapping the reservoir of continuous improvement potential: your employees

Friedemann Lutz, director with Valeocon Management Consulting, teaches us how to unlock the most valuable resource your company has in terms creating a culture of

Friedemann Lutz, director with Valeocon Management Consulting, teaches us how to unlock the most valuable resource your company has in terms creating a culture of continuous improvement.

Bill Bellows

Lessons from Deming: beyond management by extremes

In this month’s Lesson from Deming, LMJ editorial board member Bill Bellows explores the idea of what’s better, diversity or the quickest process? Which are

In this month’s Lesson from Deming, LMJ editorial board member Bill Bellows explores the idea of what’s better, diversity or the quickest process?

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Deproliferation: third lean pathway

Author and researcher Richard J. Schonberger, Ph.D. analyses why lean fails at a supply level and how organisations can change this expensive and time-wasting cycle

Author and researcher Richard J.

Jonathan Gray

From process excellence to business transformation

Jonathan Gray is VP at Hitachi Consulting, the management and technology consulting arm of Hitachi. Here he explores why lean six sigma transformations fail despite

Jonathan Gray is VP at Hitachi Consulting, the management and technology consulting arm of Hitachi.

Linus Broden

Skill development and mindset change

Linus Brodén, demand chain officer at HP Tronic, a contract electronics manufacturer in Sweden, presents a case study which explores how a lean transformation got

Linus Brodén, demand chain officer at HP Tronic, a contract electronics manufacturer in Sweden, presents a case study which explores how a lean transformation got underway at the factory.

SARAH LETHBRIDGE

Customer centred lean design at Nationwide

LMJ’s editorial board member and lean services manager at Cardiff Business School, Sarah Lethbridge espouses the building society’s leaned mortgage lending practices with a view

LMJ’s editorial board member and lean services manager at Cardiff Business School, Sarah Lethbridge espouses the building society’s leaned mortgage lending practices with a view to customer relations and views form Nationwide’s senior change manager, Ben Cuthbert.

Nick Katko

The lean CFO and the economics of lean

Nick Katko, senior consultant at BMA Consultants brings his expertise of years as CFO at various financial organisations to LMJ and discusses the best way

Nick Katko, senior consultant at BMA Consultants brings his expertise of years as CFO at various financial organisations to LMJ and discusses the best way of implementing lean.

Chris Rowe

The rise of the lean paradox

Consultant Chris Rowe explores the ideas raised in The Chimp Paradox, by Dr. Steve Peters, that human beings are often constrained by their inner instinctive

Consultant Chris Rowe explores the ideas raised in The Chimp Paradox (2012), by Dr.