If you are part of a service organization, how often have you heard someone say, “We can’t do lean here. Lean is just for manufacturing, isn’t it? We’re not some kind of widget-making assembly line, ...

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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 ...

As one way to cope with the challenging economy, many owners/facility managers are doing tenant improvements (TI) and facility upgrades. Contractors, who normally do not perform TI, are now competing ...

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Single-piece production is a staple of lean manufacturing. Microlab, a manufacturer of high-performance components such as directional couplers and filters for RF and microwave distribution systems, ...

Writers are told by their editors to “kill their darlings,” as William Faulkner famously put it. Artists and designers know “less is more.” Even neuroscientists agree: a new study by Cardiff ...

Archana Gilravi is the senior vice president of Lean In Girls, overseeing a leadership program that empowers girls aged 11 to ...

Before reading Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, I didn’t think I agreed with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s take on balancing work and family life. As a working mom ...