Changing our approach to emergency care

Features May 12, 2023
Francesc Chavalés and Imma Tort
FEATURE – The ER of this Catalan hospital is finding great value in the application of Lean Thinking, which has already led to a dramatic change in its processes and to better care for patients.

Toyota’s real secret sauce

Features May 5, 2023
Michael Ballé
FEATURE – The hardest part of a learning journey is learning to learn and figuring out what we need to learn - as opposed to we want to. The author wonders whether we are drawing the right lessons from TPS and highlights a few things we are underemphasizing.

Faster delivery, happier customer

Case studies Apr 28, 2023
Roberto Priolo
WEB SERIES – In the fourth and final episode of Season 1 of our docuseries, we visit home improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin and learn about their efforts to lean out their supply chain.

The enablers of our lean transformation

Case studies Apr 25, 2023
Ana Alvarez Soto
CASE STUDY – The Hospital de Bellvitge in Barcelona is relying heavily on hoshin and Kata to create a working environment based on collaboration and joint problem solving.

Banking on Lean

Case studies Apr 21, 2023
Roberto Priolo
WEB SERIES – Episode 3 of our docuseries on lean in Brazil takes us to the second largest bank in the country. Learn how Bradesco is striving to improve its processes to provide more value to its customers using Lean Thinking.

Leveraging lean to create a new product… and process

Interviews Apr 14, 2023
Alison Seward
INTERVIEW – In 2020, GE Appliances had to stand up a brand-new assembly process for a new dishwasher. The leader responsible for the program explains how LPPD helped them to get it right.

Empowering children to navigate life’s challenges

Features Apr 11, 2023
Sérgio Caldeirinha
FEATURE – In this new series, the author will walk us through some uncommon ways to apply lean – with a particular focus on establishing productive and enjoyable relationships. In the first instalment, he introduces the concept of lean parenting.

The gift of change

Case studies Apr 7, 2023
Roberto Priolo
WEB SERIES – In Episode 2 of our docuseries on lean in Brazil, we learn how the pioneering efforts of a cancer clinic have inspired the city of São José dos Campos to transform into a lean healthcare cluster.

Easing the pain

Case studies Mar 31, 2023
Roberto Priolo
WEB SERIES – Today, we launch a new documentary series on lean around the world, with the first season focusing on lean in Brazil. In the first episode, we visit the lean clinic on a mission to reduce the burden on cancer in our lives. 

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?