You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

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 ...

Running a business often means working with limited time, money, and staff. Owners constantly make decisions about spending, hiring, marketing, and daily operations. Because of this, many business ...

Tucked into a quiet industrial park in Everett, Wash., Applied Technical Services (ATS), is a plant in rapid lean transition. Two years ago, this privately-owned maker of circuit card assemblies and ...

“Lean” methodology creates quality improvement and leadership capacity, which is currently missing in ambulatory care settings. Failure to create this capacity will minimize transformation efforts.