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Evolution of the Lean Enterprise System: A Critical Synthesis and Agenda for the Future
(2010-07-31)Many aerospace enterprises and other organizations have adopted a variety of management approaches to achieve continuous process improvement, enterprise change and transformation, such as the lean enterprise system, total ... -
Knowledge Ingtegration in Large-Scale Organizations and Networks - Conceptual Overview and Operational Definition
(2009-12-30)Knowledge integration is an emerging discipline in organizational science where the central proposition is that the increasing complexity of products and services being developed and delivered, means that the knowledge ... -
LAI Paper Series: “Lean Product Development for Practitioners”: Risk Management in Lean PD
(2010-03-31)The two core challenges of risk management are finding the optimum balance a) between the cost of carrying risks vs. the cost of mitigating risks and b) between a risk that is taken with a certain development project and ... -
LAI Paper Series: “Lean Product Development for Practitioners”: Waste in Lean Product Development
(2010-07-10)Reading this whitepaper provides a concise overview of the most important waste drivers in product development, that is, the most common project deficiencies that lead to cost and schedule overrun, as well as to performance ... -
LAI Whitepaper Series: “Lean Product Development for Practitioners”: Program Management for Large Scale Engineering Programs
(2012-09-11)The whitepaper begins by introducing the challenges of programs in section 4, proceeds to define program management in section 5 and then gives an overview of existing program management frameworks in section 6. In section ... -
Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) – A Learning Community for Enterprise Transformation Through Holistic Enterprise Systems Thinking
(2008-03-31)This white paper gives an overview of the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI), defines LAI’s focus, outlines the central ideas and concepts driving LAI’s approach, explains the similarities and differences between LAI’s ... -
Lean Supply Chain Now: Proposed Concept Demonstration Initiative – An Activity of the Lean Aerospace Initiative Supplier Networks Working Group
(2006-04-13)The aerospace supplier base is characterized by complex interfaces that represent a significant source of waste, delay and defects. This is seriously undermining the achievement of affordability targets in current acquisition ... -
Lean Supply Chain Now: Proposed Concept Demonstration Initiative – Draft White Paper, Executive Summary
(2006-06-15)The aerospace supplier base is characterized by complex interfaces that represent a significant source of waste, delay and defects. This is seriously undermining the achievement of affordability targets in current acquisition ... -
Towards an Integration of the Lean Enterprise System, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma and Related Enterprise Process Improvement Methods
(2010-08-05)The lean enterprise system, total quality management, six sigma, theory of constraints, agile manufacturing, and business process reengineering have been introduced as universally applicable best methods to improve ...