How to deploy Breakthrough Business Strategies to achieve sustained growth and profitability in the current challenging business environment. According to a study conducted by CFO Magazine, over 500 companies revealed that the top reason for the lack of value in their company’s planning process can be explained by the lack of a well-defined process to […]
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 […]