Are you looking to reduce waste and improve efficiency in your printing operation? John Compton, principal at Compton & Associates LLC, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), and senior member of ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

What Is Lean Project Management? Your email has been sent Learn about lean project management and how it can improve efficiency and productivity. Discover its principles, benefits, and how to ...

While lean has become an umbrella term for good business practices, much of it stems from the Toyota Production System, which advocates smoothing production and eliminating waste, such as ...

In the 1990s while first learning about Japanese manufacturing and Toyota, I was also studying organizational development. A retired University of Michigan researcher, Lawrence Lippitt, ran a monthly ...

My previous column ("Next Generation Lean: Lean Processes Need to Continuously Improve") laid out the premise that there is a significant disconnect between Lean results, namely that while there are a ...

So, what is lean management exactly? Put in its most simple form, lean management is about eliminating waste without sacrificing productivity to improve work processes, purposes, stakeholder value, ...

In this ongoing series, The Fix, we look to problems faced by real companies and how they solved them. The Fix: Handmaker began doing research on how to improve manufacturing processes in a holistic ...

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire clearly was pleased by the standing-room-only size of the audience that greeted her as she climbed onto the Tacoma Convention Center stage recently for the Washington ...