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Four Moments from the 2026 Lean Summit that Stayed with Me 

I hadn’t attended one of LEI’s lean conferences in over five years. The last one was right before the COVID outbreak shut everything down, and I was honestly curious about what I would find when I walked into the 2026 Lean Summit in Houston on March 11–13 this past week. Would the community feel the same? Would the conversations have moved forward? Would there be energy, or j...


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10 Takeaways from the Lean Summit 2026 

Last week, 528 members of the lean community gathered in Houston, Texas, for two days of learning and discussion about leadership, management systems, and AI/tech. This article brings you some of the key insights shared by speakers at this year’s event.

1. In a disrupted world, lean is vital, but organizations need to really make it part of ...

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The Management System Your Organization Doesn’t Know It Needs 

Here’s an uncomfortable thought: most organizations are addressing only a fraction of the problems they actually have. By problem, I simply mean a gap between what is and what should be happening. And worse, leaders in those organizations don’t even know it.

I’m not saying they’re ignoring problems. Most people do what they can to fix known problems. I’m talking ab...


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Automation, AI, and the Risk of Doing Things Efficiently That Should Not Be Done at All 

You may remember seeing the results of an MIT study from July 2025 stating that 95% of generative AI pilots failed to produce meaningful results for the companies surveyed. That was the headline. The study unpacks several success factors,...


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When "Future State” Becomes Fiction: Lean, Complexity, and the Vector Theory of Change 

Lean practitioners have long been taught that improvement culminates in a designed “future state.” We map the current condition, identify waste and constraints, and then create a future-state value-stream map (VSM) that shows how the system should operate.

In stable and ordered environments, this works beautifully, but in complex adaptive systems, somethin...


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