This paper stems from work carried out by the Lean Enterprise Research Centre within the military arena with the RAF. It demonstrates the robustness of the Lean approach and shows that the lean enterprise has the potential to be applied well beyond its automotive origins.

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This paper takes Lean away from shop floor and customer facing practices and looks at how it may be brought into core functions of our organisations. In this instance, New Product Development.  

Many academic articles have been published in the past 20 years promoting the Lean approach in manufacturing and in service industries. Very little attention has been paid to the possibility of applying Lean Thinking to the academic institutions that these articles stem from.

This article explores how Lean Thinking can be successfully extended into the legal sector, which in most advanced economies is dominated by the public sector. Two public sector cases from Portugal and Wales are discussed.