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  2. Lean manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Lean principles have been successfully applied to various sectors and services, such as call centers and healthcare. In the former, lean's waste reduction practices have been used to reduce handle time, within and between agent variation, accent barriers, as well as attain near perfect process adherence.

  3. Lean thinking - Wikipedia

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    Lean thinking is a management framework made up of a philosophy, practices and principles which aim to help practitioners improve efficiency and the quality of work. Lean thinking encourages whole organisation participation. The goal is to organise human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating ...

  4. Lean Six Sigma - Wikipedia

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    Lean Six Sigma is a process improvement approach that uses a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing operational waste [1] and reducing process variation. It combines the many tools and techniques that form the "tool box" of Lean Management and Six Sigma to increase the velocity of value creation in business ...

  5. Lean - Wikipedia

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    Lean thinking, a business methodology adopted in various fields; Lean construction, an adaptation of lean manufacturing principles to the design and construction process; Lean government, application of lean thinking to government; Lean higher education, application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education

  6. The Toyota Way - Wikipedia

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    The Toyota Way is a set of principles defining the organizational culture of Toyota Motor Corporation. [1] [2] The company formalized the Toyota Way in 2001, after decades of academic research into the Toyota Production System and its implications for lean manufacturing as a methodology that other organizations could adopt. [3]

  7. Lean enterprise - Wikipedia

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    Lean enterprise is a practice focused on value creation for the end customer with minimal waste and processes. Principals derive from lean manufacturing and Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma ). The lean principles were popularized by Toyota in the automobile manufacturing industry , and subsequently the electronics and internet software industries.

  8. Lean software development - Wikipedia

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    Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System , [ 1 ] it is emerging with the support of a pro-lean subculture within the agile community.

  9. Lean IT - Wikipedia

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    Lean IT is the extension of lean manufacturing and lean services principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services. Its central concern, applied in the context of IT, is the elimination of waste, where waste is work that adds no value to a product or service.