If someone asked you for your “elevator definition” of lean, what would you say? The answer you’d give is a product of the messaging you’ve heard with respect to lean over the years. Rick recently got ...

Lean production and labor : empowerment and exploitation / Steve Babson -- Unions and management by stress / Mike Parker and Jane Slaughter -- Workers' roles in lean production : the implications for ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Entrepreneurs are obsessed with productivity, and for good reason. Most startups work with small teams on short timelines, which means ...

We need to think about redefining work. Until we—anyone who wishes to bring about organizational change—redefine our business’s actual value-creating work, we haven’t made any meaningful changes. You ...

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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, ...

The lean startup approach has taken the entrepreneurship world by storm. Even established companies such as Dropbox, Slack, and General Electric have embraced it as a way to rapidly test and refine ...

You might even catch the hopeful phrasing: “We’re a lean team.” The words echo from the top of the corporate hierarchy and even into the annual reports. There’s a quiet pride in those words. The ...