The Lean Edge: How lean is the Lean Startup?
"How lean is the lean startup?
The lean startup movement is growing fast, now highlighted in the HBR yet no one in the lean movement seems to comment or connect - how do you feel about the lean startup? What can we learn from it?"
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Kevin Meyer: Any upsides/downsides to relying on JM/TWI process deconstruction as kaizen? Yes it works… but I can already see the limitation with non-documented processes
By Kevin Meyer, President of Specialty Silicone Fabricators and Factory Strategie Group, co-author of 'Evolving Excellence: Thoughts on Lean Enterprise Leadership'
- Last updated: Sunday, July 18, 2010
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A few of the thinkers and authors on this page have actually been in my operations, and I've used Michael's The Lean Manager as required reading in our lean book club. We're a multi-site process (extrusion/molding) medical contract manufacturer, four or five years down a successful lean journey that has made us more agile and competitive, with great 5S, value stream organization, daily accountability, etc. But one big struggle has been basic kaizen - creating the culture and finding the time. Over the past couple years with help from Art Smalley we've successfully dived into TWI. Now it seems like ... 
Sandrine Olivencia