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Improving Your Team’s Lean Project Management

Strategy Driven

If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Make Your Projects Run More Efficiently and Deliver Better Results Through Lean Project Management. Step Two: Create a value plan. Here’s how to get started.

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Toyota’s Management History

Deming Institute

To enhance overall planning and, from a long-term perspective, achieve swift and precise decision making and execution through coordination among management structures. That management system is often referred to as the Toyota Production System and was also given the name “lean manufacturing.”

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How Chief Data Officers Can Get Their Companies to Collect Clean Data

Harvard Business Review

The CDAO needed to solve two problems that were not envisioned in his original job scope: integrating data governance into the product development process and guiding the development of the IT systems that collect and manage consent information. As a result, maintaining and using the merged data set is costly and complicated.

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When Your Best Customers Really Aren't

Harvard Business Review

Those firms may even be your most dangerous customers because they treat you more like low-cost vendors than partners in design and development.". "So Toyota made its quality reputation sending its lean manufacturing experts into its suppliers' production lines to advise them on product design and process improvement.

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An Obstacle to Patient-Centered Care: Poor Supply Systems

Harvard Business Review

and Canada, I have come to the conclusion that health care professionals will continue to struggle to deliver it unless hospitals redesign their internal supply processes, structures, and measurement systems so that staff have the specific materials and equipment needed for patients’ individual care plans, when they are needed.

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