Interviews

How we gradually built our CI model

InterviewsMay 24, 2023

INTERVIEW – Cleveland Clinic has been on a lean journey for a few years now. In this interview, their Chief Improvement Officer and Chief Nursing Officer talk continuous improvement, metrics, and sustaining results.

Leveraging lean to create a new product… and process

InterviewsApr 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.

Double interview: 365 and Dreamplace

InterviewsFeb 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.

Back together, learning

InterviewsJan 31, 2023

Dave Brunt

INTERVIEW – In April, the Lean Enterprise Academy in the UK is hosting its first in-person summit since before the pandemic. We caught up with their CEO to hear about the event.

Solving problems by developing people

InterviewsJan 13, 2023

The Elecmetal leadership team

INTERVIEW – Top leaders at Chilean company Elecmetal talk to us about how lean has transformed their role in the organization and how capability development is fuelling change.

How we built a lean foundry from scratch

InterviewsNov 15, 2022

Dariusz Dziuba

INTERVIEW – Ahead of this week’s Lean Global Connection, we talk to one of the speakers, who is trying to create a foundry that is lean from the start.

John Shook on transformations and lean in a crisis

InterviewsNov 4, 2022

John Shook

VIDEO INTERVIEW – We recently caught up with John Shook at the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference in Stanford and asked him to share his thought on the questions we need to ask ourselves in a lean journey and on lean in turbulent times.

How cultural change has fueled our transformation

InterviewsNov 2, 2022

Eryk Fedyniak

INTERVIEW – This metalworking company based in Poland has leveraged the cultural change brought by Lean Thinking to significantly improve its processes. Ahead of his presentation at the LGC, their lean manager tells us how they did it.

Making lean relatable and meaningful

InterviewsOct 25, 2022

Angie Norman

INTERVIEW – General Electric’s Angie Norman talks to our editor about the lean journey of the company’s Finance department and how the area became a driver of GE’s overall transformation.

How E.ON is dealing with a volatile energy market

InterviewsOct 18, 2022

Huibert-Jan den Hartog

INTERVIEW – Ahead of his presentation at the Lean Global Connection, the interviewee shares his thoughts on the current energy crisis and discusses how lean is helping E.ON to navigate it.

Lean in hospitality: challenges and opportunities

InterviewsSep 20, 2022

Juan Pedro Gonzalez

INTERVIEW – Juan Pedro Gonzalez is a pioneer of lean in hospitality, having spearheaded the transformation of Spain’s Dreamplace hotels since the beginning. Here, he discusses what role lean can play in advancing the industry.

Leading the change

InterviewsJun 24, 2022

Kjeld Aij

FEATURE – Our editor recently caught up with the director of the largest hospital in the Netherlands and asked him about the lean transformation he’s leading there.

An eye for improvement

InterviewsJun 21, 2022

Balázs Sebestyén

INTERVIEW – At last month’s International Lean Summit in Hungary, our editor sat down with the manager of a CooperVision site that is gradually converting its operations to make them leaner.

Lean learning, reinvented

InterviewsMay 3, 2022

David Marriott, Dave Brunt and Sarah Gregory

INTERVIEW – From hospitals to start-ups, lean principles have been applied far beyond their origins at Toyota. This article discusses how lean can be applied to learning – specifically, how we can apply lean learning to learning lean.

Lean and the digitization of Benin’s public administration

InterviewsApr 5, 2022

Ornella Diane Semondji

INTERVIEW – In today’s Q&A, we learn how Lean Thinking is supporting the digital transformation of the public administration of the African country of Benin.

Becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable

HalfwayFeb 3, 2022

Sharon Visser

INTERVIEW – Our editor chats with Lean Houses for Dragons author Sharon Visser. They discuss her book, what fear can do to a transformation and the power of storytelling.

There are two Ps in LPPD

InterviewsJan 24, 2022

Matt Zayko and Eric Ethington

INTERVIEW – The authors of the new book The Power of Process debunk some of the most common myths about lean process development.

A deep dive into the Lean Transformation Framework

InterviewsNov 18, 2021