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Lean Thinking in Action: What a Hospital Can Teach Us About Project Management

Recall your most recent visit to a medical center. You arrived with a unique situation—one that could be categorized under a certain diagnosis and treated in a standardized manner, similar to other patients. Depending on your perspective, you could be seen either as a project, based on your individual complaints, or as part of a […]

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Pedaling Toward Excellence: Lessons on Marginal Gains and Continuous Improvement

Pedaling Toward Excellence: Lessons on Marginal Gains and Continuous Improvement

Pedaling is perhaps the best metaphor to visualize continuous improvement: the rider makes small, repetitive “cycles” that together propel the bicycle forward—sometimes over 3,500 kilometers, as seen in the Tour de France. One man famously turned this metaphor into a reality within the world of competitive cycling by applying the Kaizen principle of marginal improvement

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