This week The Management Brief kicks off an extended series on the coaching and co-learning that is occurring throughout the lean community. We’ll be exploring the benefits of mutual learning in all its forms — senior leaders with their lean coaches, ...

In this special edition of the WLEI Podcast, hosts Lex Schroeder and LEI President Josh Howell sit down with former product development executive Jim Morgan to explore the lasting impact of The Toyota Product Development System:...

In a recent Lean Tech & AI Journal article, I suggested that future-state thinking can quietly become fiction when applied in complex adaptive systems. 

This piece is being published simultaneously on lean.org and our sister publication Planet Lean

Daily management and hoshin kanri are two fundamental elements in any lean system. While they serve different purposes, the two are deeply con...

For decades, the phrase that killed more improvement efforts than any budget cut or failed software rollout was: “Wait, that’s not my job.”

You know the scene. Someone spots a gap at a handoff. Maybe it’s between sales and delivery, or between setup and operations. They try to close it. Suddenly there’s a job description. Then a supervisor. Then a turf war. Then a ...