Lean Growth Tools Free Web Series
Lean Horizons Consulting presents a series of webinars on strengthening and building successful new product systems. Each year in the United States, 7 out of 10 new products fail. This series is about the methodology and process of delivering successful new products on time, on budget and building the three year sales plan. Please join [...]
Lean Administration Certification Workshop
Businesses need to remove costs from their operations to remain viable. They need to increase profitability and remove waste and variation from their processes in order to stay competitive. Administrative Lean methodology skills are in great demand. The only way to ensure you get to the top of the ladder is to achieve a Green [...]
A Hospital Without Waste
Is there a Hospital which continually strives for WASTE reduction? There appears to be a hospital in India, which seems to know the answer to this question. That’s Aravind Eye Hospital in India. When you walk in here and visit the hospital without an appointment, you get your diagnosis the same day and when you [...]
Any Color You Want Except Tuxedo Black
Henry Ford could get the customer any type of Model T as long as it was black. But the Ford Motor Company now finds itself in the strange position of being able to supply vehicles in any color except (metallic) black as a result of the catastrophe in Japan. The earthquake-tsunami that hit northeast Japan has [...]
Lean Principles in Information Technology
Lean Principles have been applied over the years in many different sectors delivering substantial results. Today there are many success stories almost in every business activity, however throughout my years of experience implementing Lean in different countries, mostly in the US, Lean has not yet been widely utilized in the IT world. Enterprises that have [...]
Mark DeLuzio Interviewed on The Lean Nation
Lean Horizons President and CEO, Mark DeLuzio, was interviewed on The Lean Nation radio show with Karl Wadensten on April 12, 2011. If you missed the broadcast, you can click below to listen to the podcast. Click here to listen to Mark DeLuzio on The Lean Nation. The Lean Nation is on 790AM (Citadel Broadcasting, ABC [...]
Lean Horizons to Celebrate 10 Years of Consulting
Lean Horizons Consulting will be celebrating it’s 10th year of consulting in May, 2011! Lean Horizons started in 2001 with just four consultants, who were led by the company’s President and CEO, Mark DeLuzio. Today Lean Horizons is a global company serving markets in North and South America, Europe, China, and India. One of our [...]
How Do You Apply Lean To Administrative Processes?
Are your Lean efforts primarily shop floor focused? The late Dr. Deming stated that most customers do not leave an organization because of bad products; rather they leave due to bad processes. This would suggest that “back office” areas need to be transformed. Our experience tells us that the root cause of problems found on [...]
Does Your Company Have a Lean Culture?
Why do so many companies fail at lean transformations? I get this question quite frequently. I have had the opportunity in my career to literally work with hundreds of companies. Those that don’t make it usually have one thing in common: lack of top-level support from leadership. So many companies try to excel at the [...]
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