Understanding these key issues is a vital building block for developing your own lean implementation plan. Lean manufacturing includes the minimization or near elimination of storage time for ...

By adopting Lean, CMS is decreasing contract modification cycle time by more than 50 percent, achieving a 95 percent reduction in post implementation information technology change requests in ...

Leadership is an essential building block for the successful implementation of Lean Thinking. This course describes leadership behaviors critical to the successful implementation of Lean in any ...

One of the keys to a lean implementation is to become a learning organization through relentless reflection and continuous improvement. The following list of do's and don'ts is aimed at keeping ...

Key Points Working with highly regulated industries can pose a real challenge for Lean Six Sigma rollouts. Senior leadership buy-in for Lean Six Sigma integration is one of the most critical needs in ...

Lean Six Sigma training begins with Yellow Belt, followed by Green Belt, Black Belt, and culminiating in Master Black Belt. Each subsequent level of training builds upon the previous, leading to a ...

"We had that burning platform, and if you can create that, it goes a long ways toward successful implementation." In 2007 Giromini took over as the company's CEO. In his current role, most of Giromini ...

I started working in construction, as many did, at a young age, as a gopher and worked my way up. Now 55 years old, I was part of the generation that entered the workforce as computers and new ...

7 Today, extensive literature documents the success of the implementation of Lean techniques. 8-10 After Lean philosophy succeeded in helping the manufacturing industry, it expanded into the ...