Five lean mistakes to avoid

Features Mar 21, 2023
Angélica Gutiérrez
FEATURE – Based on her experience at Lean Institute Colombia, the author lists five common mistakes hindering a lean transformation. Take note!

Reflecting on our 15-year journey

Features Mar 15, 2023
Carlos Frederico Pinto
FEATURE – PL readers will likely be familiar with IOV, the cancer clinic in Brazil that’s become a reference for lean healthcare for countless organizations. Here, Dr Fred looks back at IOV’s 15-year journey.

Lean Digital with generative AI

Features Mar 10, 2023
Christopher Thompson (...with some help)
FEATURE – This year, PL will try to understand what the future of work looks like in a world with AI. To kick us off and make us think, we publish an article that is the result of a one-hour conversation between a human and a machine.

Creativity unleashed

Features Mar 8, 2023
Nicolás Alejandro Rebozov
FEATURE – A lean coach from Argentina reflects on the transformations he has supported across Latin America and on why lean can help unlock the potential of the continent. 

Double interview: 365 and Dreamplace

Interviews Feb 28, 2023
Marco López and Juan Antonio Tena
INTERVIEW – Earlier this month, we attended a Lean Day at Dreamplace Hotels and Resorts in the Canary Islands. We sat down with two lean leaders to discuss the transformations of their businesses.

Arrows and loops – the evolution of our management system

Features Feb 17, 2023
Jordi Estalella
FEATURE – A senior executive of a Spanish hotel chain shares an example of how the organization’s management system and visual tools have changed over time.

Lean in government, a comeback?

Features Feb 14, 2023
Roberto Priolo
FEATURE – At a recent Lean Day, our editor was reminded of the immense potential of Lean Thinking applied to government. After a few sleepy years, is lean in the public administration having a comeback?

Lean, our “breda” and butter

Features Feb 7, 2023
Erik Ottens
BOOK EXCERPT – The city of Breda in the Netherlands has been on a lean journey for the past six years. Today we share an excerpt from the book The Lean Government, which sets the scene for the transformation.

The power of people: adapting to changing times

Case studies Feb 3, 2023
Eivind Reke with Håvard Buhaug
CASE STUDY – A people-centric approach to work, improvement, and the adoption of automation is allowing this Norwegian company to thrive in a changing industry and environment.

Welcome to Planet Lean – Learn about lean thinking and improve your organization.

What is lean, you ask? Lean is a different, better approach to management that can dramatically improve your organizational performance, make your customers and employees happier, and transform your firm. And it doesn’t matter where you work – this methodology may have been born in Toyota’s factories, but today there is much more than just lean manufacturing out there. We have successful examples of lean healthcare, lean government, lean engineering, lean education and even lean marketing, to name but a few.

The main idea behind the lean approach is that there is always a better way of doing things, and that your people are critical to finding out what that better way is. They will do so by helping you to understand the work to be done, seeing the problems that plague it, and finding solutions to those problems.

As the official online magazine of Lean Global Network, Planet Lean brings you the best insights on lean management from around the world. We share examples of successful applications of the lean methodology in all industries, hands-on advice on how to make lean principles and lean tools work in your organization, and thought-provoking articles that will help you to reflect further on the opportunity to achieve operational excellence.

This business philosophy can truly transform your organization, but creating a lean culture starts with you… Are you up for the challenge?