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What is Lean Production? Frequently Asked Questions

Kainexus

Lean production , also referred to as Lean manufacturing or Lean business, is a methodology that helps businesses and non-profit organizations reach their short and long-term goals. Although Lean production originated in the manufacturing sector, it is now used by organizations of all industries and sizes.

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The 7 Wastes of Lean in Healthcare

Kainexus

Although the Lean business improvement methodology was initially developed to improve the quality and productivity of automotive factories, it has been used with great success in industries and settings of all types, including software development, government, retail, and other service settings.

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The Principles and Implementation of Lean Improvement

Kainexus

One of the most widespread is an approach that grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, Lean manufacturing. Today, Lean thinking ideas are applied in almost every industry, including healthcare, education, construction, and software development.

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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Lean Innovation Leadership in the Enterprise

Moves the Needle

In the video, our CEO Brant Cooper grills COO Aaron Eden about his past working as an innovation catalyst at Intuit, his background in software development, and the extremely valuable experiences he’s had over the years working to develop leaders from dozens of organizations across many differing industries.

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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions

Moves the Needle

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. If your devices aren’t as lean and efficient as when they were new, a few tweaks and some maintenance will improve their performance.