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Essential Ideas of Lean

The Lean Way of Thinking
  • Find out why lean is not just another toolkit of techniques. Here lean is expressed as a way of thinking.


Process/Protocol/Structures of Lean

Gemba Walk
  • Take a gemba walk with a Japanese plant manager and discover that the questions are far more important than the walk.


Student Projects

The Lean Journey


Deliverables of Lean


Why Lean for Schools
  • Read the RAND Corporation Report [PDF] identifying lean principles as superior to the Baldridge National Quality Award Program for improving educational accountability.



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