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Creating a Lean Business System |
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This white paper describes how The Lean Business Model® can be used to make Lean Thinking ‘a way of life’ in your business. It looks at all the elements that need to be in place to complete a Lean transformation and how you can create a roadmap for Lean that is specific to your organisation. Click here to download the white paper. Click here to download the white paper
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The Principles of the Lean Business System |
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Since the publication of ‘Lean Thinking’ by James Womack and Daniel Jones in 1996, our understanding of Lean has moved on. Lean has been applied across a wider range of manufacturing and service industries and the issue of sustaining change has become more central. In this paper S A Partners chairman Professor Peter Hines explains why he thinks it is time to revisit the original five Lean principles outlined in ‘Lean Thinking’, and what the right set of principles for today could be. Click here to download the white paper
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Toyota Production System in House Building |
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Could the Toyota Production System, designed for a high volume industry, really be transferred successfully to the lower volume housebuilding sector? Read what happened when Toyota moved into prefabricated housebuilding in this article.
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Lean in the Public Sector - Must do better |
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This paper looks at how sustainable Lean is possible in the public sector. Using the Lean Iceberg Model, it moves away from the ‘quick win’ culture that is often applied, and looks at the ‘below the waterline’ elements of sustainable Lean which include; Strategy and Alignment, Leadership and Behaviour & Engagement.
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This paper, written by Professor Peter Hines, Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University, and his colleagues at S A Partners, explores how Lean and Green should, and can be brought together.
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