UK based Knowledge Train is pleased to invite students to sign up for the new Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt online certification course. While accredited by APMG International, the Lean Six Sigma ...

Increasingly, global competition requires that manufacturing companies improve their production efficiencies or face extinction. And indeed, by adopting Toyota's Lean System, companies have achieved ...

The Office of Continuous Improvement has a library of Lean resources available for loan. Below is the list of resources that includes books, DVDs and workshop materials. These resources cover the ...

In the October 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review is an article, entitled “Lean Knowledge Work”, where authors Bradley Staats and David Upton explore the issue of whether the lean knowledge ...

Knowledge and experience in quality and continuous improvement are highly valued by today's employers. The principles are being applied in engineering, healthcare, business, service, nonprofits, and ...

This article by Carmen Nobel first appeared on the HBS Working Knowledge website. Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit co-founder Scott Cook ...

Your lean culture depends on you providing the correct answer to this basic question: Who leads and owns the lean transformation? Who has the responsibility to create ...

In more than 20 years of helping companies all over the world, I’ve obsessed over one question: Why do some lean transformations take off like a rocket while others quietly fizzle out? Somewhere ...