lean education

Leveraging tech to improve education

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InterviewsAug 13, 2019
Priya Lakhani
INTERVIEW – In a chat with our editor, Priya Lakhani explains how technology can be used to understand a student’s unique learning pathway and design teaching accordingly.

The role of a lean educator

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FeaturesAug 8, 2019
Monica Rossi
FEATURE – What does it really mean to teach lean? The author reflects on this question and shares a few tips on how to successfully engage learners in different environments. 

Lean learning, learning lean

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FeaturesJun 13, 2019
Dave Brunt
FEATURE – What can the world of lean and the world of education learn from one another? The author reflects on the synergies between these two realities.

Reflecting on a unique partnership

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FeaturesJun 4, 2019
Planet Lean
FEATURE – Following the recent CXO Summit in Singapore, a team from the Lean Global Network reflects on the partnership with SIT and its potential effects on the city-state.

Lean thinking, better teaching

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FeaturesMay 9, 2019
René Aernoudts
FEATURE – A school board in Holland is discovering the potential of lean thinking and improving its processes to tackle the overburdening of teachers.

Learning A3 thinking to become a better doctor

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FeaturesApr 19, 2019
Laura O'Donohue
FEATURE – A student in a medical school recently completed a rotation based on A3 thinking. She tells us what learning to use this problem-solving method has brought her.

Teaching A3 skills to medical students

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FeaturesMar 26, 2019
Dr Jack Billi
FEATURE – Problem solving is a fundamental part of being a leader, which is what led this medical school in the United States to include A3 thinking in its curriculum. 

Lean thinking in ‘Pole’ position

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InterviewsOct 30, 2018
Tomasz Koch
GETTING TO KNOW US – We continue our series of interviews with Lean Global Network directors with a Q&A with another veteran of the global lean movement, Poland’s Tomasz Koch.

Please, no more dull learning

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Case studiesSep 21, 2018
Tony Lamberton and Kate Unsworth
FEATURE – The application of lean management to education is not new, but we all know how hard changing legacy systems is. This greenfield lean school aims higher, trying to rethink learning altogether.
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A value stream for people development

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FeaturesAug 16, 2018
Csaba Bereczki
FEATURE – The continuous flow of developing people’s capabilities throughout their studies and careers is lacking, to say the least. It’s time we saw this as one big value chain. 

The school undergoing a lean and digital transformation

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Case studiesJun 29, 2018
Attila Tószegi
CASE STUDY – An elementary school in Budapest is trying to bring innovation to the education by harnessing the power of lean thinking combined with a solid digital strategy.
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Hungary needs lean thinking, we think we can help

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InterviewsMay 28, 2018
Szabolcs Molnár
GETTING TO KNOW US – For our second interview with LGN directors, we travel to Hungary to meet the President of our affiliate institute there. He tells us his country’s need for good workers and how lean can make the difference.
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These university students are replacing theses with A3s

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InterviewsApr 20, 2018
Harry van der Werk
INTERVIEW – In this Dutch university, lean is not only taught in the classroom. A3s are now replacing the writing of a thesis as the final assignment students are asked to complete.
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Better learning in Italian high schools using lean and Scrum

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FeaturesMar 28, 2018
Giuseppe Acquasaliente
FEATURE – Is the traditional teaching model used in our schools obsolete? A high school in Italy has been experimenting with lean thinking and Scrum applied to students’ learning, and the results have been enlightening.
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Teaching lean to secure the future of Singapore healthcare

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FeaturesDec 19, 2017
Genedine Lim
FEATURE – After Singapore Institute of Technology staff was introduced to lean thinking, a course was launched to provide healthcare workers with the lean skills they need to transform their organizations.

Lean in higher education: improving Macquarie University

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Case studiesMay 24, 2017
Valerie Runyan
CASE STUDY – An Australian university has been applying lean to streamline and improve its processes, discovering along the way how big a change the methodology can affect in the organization's culture.

Business school education should be gemba-based

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Womack's YokotenMar 27, 2017
Jim Womack
WOMACK’S YOKOTEN – Somehow surprisingly, management schools teach very little about management, and when they do all learning is classroom-based. Instead, they should go to the gemba.
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A3 problem solving to develop Ohio’s school leaders

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InterviewsSep 16, 2016
Peg Pennington & Aneesa Locke-Hines
INTERVIEW – A program that aims to help disadvantaged school districts in Ohio used A3 thinking to teach principals how to scientifically solve problems together with their teachers. We met a principal and one of her teachers.