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As service companies dabble with various methods for addressing their business issues,

A lot has being written about Toyota and its ability to wade through the current crisis.

As 2010 ushers in, it’s time for us to look at the key trends that surrounded the ecosystem of all businesses.

This column of mine is triggered by the interesting debate that I saw in response to Tripp Babbitt’s article,

While embarking on a holistic Lean transformation, I have seen practitioners struggle to come up with metrics.....

Value stream mapping and Lean implementation in the service business have somehow become synonymous.

5S as a tool has been leveraged by manufacturing companies for decades.

Before embarking on a Lean project, we should be clear with the various times that are used in Lean improvements.

In my last column we discussed the eight wastes of Lean. We also looked at the various examples from the service sector.

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