Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle was among the industry’s earliest adopters of Lean, a management process based on Toyota’s production system that focuses on identifying areas of waste to ...

What Is Lean Project Management? Your email has been sent Learn about lean project management and how it can improve efficiency and productivity. Discover its principles, benefits, and how to ...

The concept of “Lean,” which is essentially a team-based approach to continuous improvement focused on eliminating non-value added activities or “waste” from the viewpoint of the customer, has been ...

With the financial pressures that healthcare organizations are facing, many hospitals are using traditional cost cutting methods to save money by looking at layoffs and staff reductions. Many more ...

The Toyota Production System (TPS), also known as the Lean management system (Lean), is already helping health care organizations provide high-quality, low-cost care, and it promises to do far more.

Lean management, a philosophy that strives to deliver the most value in the least wasteful way possible, is finding its way from a “manufacturing thing” into the commercial real estate industry. JE ...

With Lean Thinking, Jim Womack and Dan Jones ushered a true (and rare) revolution in management thinking: To deliver a superior order of performance, leaders should lead from the workplace, the “gemba ...

I started working in construction, as many did, at a young age, beginning as a gopher and working my way up. Now 55 years old, I was part of the generation that entered the workforce as computers and ...

International Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 2, Special Issue: Lean Production in the Global Economy (2015), pp. 112-132 (21 pages) The question of how lean management has been transferred to ...

is a design management process that is applied most often within the construction sector. Its applicability to natural resources management is evident through the similarities between construction ...