When Lean Isn’t Enough
When Lean Isn’t Enough A journey through bottlenecks, contradictions, and breakthroughs Mark Hembree Thu, 04/16/2026 - 12:03...
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When Lean Isn’t Enough A journey through bottlenecks, contradictions, and breakthroughs Mark Hembree Thu, 04/16/2026 - 12:03...
TL;DR: The eight wastes give you a lens for seeing problems — but Lean isn't a scavenger hunt for waste. The real work is understanding why waste exists and building systems where...
Lean design-system teams, when strategically planned, can move faster, prioritize sharply, and scale impact beyond their size.
Lean thinking is often associated with manufacturing floors, production lines, and complex value stream maps. Yet waste exists in every type of process. Once you begin to see it, y...
Before I get into the focus of this column, I’d venture to guess that many quality professionals reading this column’s title did an about take thinking this guy has lost his mind....
Lean has a decades-long track record of producing real results across industries. Hospitals have used it to reduce patient harm and eliminate hours of wasted time per shift. Manufa...
TL;DR: Lean daily management is the system that makes improvement happen between the projects — visual boards, huddles, gemba walks, leader standard work, and strategy alignment wo...
Production delays, excess inventory and inconsistent workflows can quickly reduce output and increase operating costs. The right lean manufacturing tools and techniques help manufa...
TL;DR: Rory Sutherland's Alchemy is a useful provocation for Lean practitioners. Lean already knows how to test small, low-cost ideas without demanding an airtight ROI in advance....
CASE STUDY When Local Improvement Wasn't Enough How St. Clair Hospital scaled a Lean culture across 2,400 employees with a two-person improvement team At a glance 328-bed in...
The fashion world is changing fast. Shoppers expect new styles quicker than ever. Trends appear overnight and fade just as fast. That speed puts pressure on how clothes get made. B...
One operations leader, describing how he onboards people to his organization's improvement platform, said something that should make every CI professional pause: "It takes m...
Most improvement work starts with a process someone can see: the steps their team follows, the metrics on their board, the problems in their inbox. That's where it should start....
Occam’s Razor is a principle that dates back to the 14th century and is attributed to the English Franciscan friar and philosopher William of Ockham. It simply says: When multiple...
It is an exciting time to be in manufacturing. Across the globe, the industry is reinventing itself through artificial intelligence, automation, and data analytics that improve spe...
Lynn Kelley had rolled out big organizational changes across 32 countries at Textron. She'd worked with Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, EZGO Golf Cars, and automotive plants a...
This week’s guest is Randall Dupre. Ron and Randall discussed Randall’s book, “Everyday Lean,” the kinds of mistakes Randall sees people making, what good leadership looks like, hi...
Every Lean practitioner can recite the two pillars: continuous improvement and respect for people. Ask them what continuous improvement looks like on a given day, and you'll get sp...
Every continuous improvement program starts somewhere, and that somewhere is almost always a spreadsheet. This makes sense. Excel is already on every computer. People know how...
A hospital VP I worked with once told her board the number of infections had dropped from 4 to 3. She got a small round of congratulations. The next quarter, it went to 5, and she...
You already know something is broken. The spreadsheet that tracked 40 improvements just fine is now a 12-tab monster maintained by a person who might leave next quarter. The sug...
Overseeing more than $3 billion in backlog, Hoffman is steering one of the firm’s fastest growing business units.
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