It’s not another "flavor of the month" or one more program that senior management tries in the quest for greater efficiency. Instead, lean enterprise offers significant company and customer benefits ...

I attended the 2015 Lean Accounting Summit on October 8-9 th in Jacksonville, Fla., produced by Lean Frontiers, headed up by founder and President Jim Huntzinger. It was two days of information-packed ...

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However, lean’s many benefits extend well beyond the assembly line. And, as a new book argues, its qualitative approach to enterprise improvement has never been more relevant. What a Unicorn Knows, by ...

GKN Wheels, a producer of large, off-highway wheels for manufacturers of construction and agricultural plant and machinery is adopting systems and quality standards previously only seen in the ...

The digital enterprise, which everyone is striving for these days, isn't a single, cohesive venture that is efficiently processing bits and bytes on one end and delivering instantaneous customer ...

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In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...

State and local government IT leaders are facing a reset in the expectations of their employees, driven by workplace pressures and the advent of artificial intelligence. That shift is fueling growing ...