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Lean Simulation: Your Source for Lean Games and Training Tools 0
- Lean Resources
- June 1, 2011
There is a new blog within the Lean community called Lean Simulations. This is the creation of Martin Boersema, a Lean practitioner from the Toronto area. The goal of this site is to create a resource or repository for training simulations, videos, and other tools for sharing and learning. Martin explains this in his own words:
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Remembering Service 0
- Other
- May 30, 2011
Memorial Day is a time to remember former and present service members. I want to wish everybody out there a wonderful Memorial Day. Hopefully, everybody can spend some quality time with their families and the people they love and remember what this holiday is about. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily
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Lean Quote: When You See a Job To Do, Just Do It 0
- Lean Quote
- May 27, 2011
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Customizing Lean Your Way 0
- Lean Resources
- May 26, 2011
It is important that you apply Lean thinking to solve your own problems. Since every business and industry is different the problems are also different. While we can all learn from each other we must customize our solution if we want the countermeasure to be effective and sustained. A common area you see custom solutions
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #14 0
- Lean Tips
- May 25, 2011
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet – Lean vs Operational Excellence 0
- In the News
- May 24, 2011
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which means what matters is what something is, not what it is called. A recent article got me thinking about this and the waste of needing to go beyond Lean to “Operational Excellence”. Kevin Duggan, President of Duggan
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