Critical Path-Method scheduling and Lean Construction techniques seem at first to have an inherent conflict, one focused on the long-term and the other focused on the near-term, but that isn't the ...

Can Lean techniques, mastered on the factory floor, drive costs from the front office? How much money is your company losing due to wasted effort and low productivity of knowledge workers employed in ...

So, what is lean management exactly? Put in its most simple form, lean management is about eliminating waste without sacrificing productivity to improve work processes, purposes, stakeholder value, ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...

Master of Science in Project Management (MPM) students are learning more about principles of Lean thinking to affect change in the construction industry. One of the major innovations in the world of ...

The principles of 'lean management' have permeated many sectors of today's business world, secondary to the success of the Toyota Production System. This management method enables workers to eliminate ...