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IndustryWeek November 1, 2003 Patricia Panchak	Lean Health Care? It Works! A medical researcher has real-life proof that a TPS (Toyota Production System) approach to health care slashes costs for all involved, and a group of Iowa manufacturers is making it happen.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods Lean manufacturing tops the list of responses to a survey about continuous improvement programs.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Lean Results for Lean Programs: By the Numbers Although many large U.S.-based manufacturers utilize lean techniques, there's a lot of room for improvement.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Brad Kenney	Continuous Improvement Gets a Green Makeover Don't get hung up on the enviro-hype. Reducing waste, emissions and pollution is simply good business.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Ralph Keller	Continuous Improvement -- What's This Sustainability Stuff All About? Manufacturers are discovering there are many good business reasons for focusing on profit, people and the planet.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009	Turning Software Into a Solution Information technology can't make your operation lean, but it can provide valuable support for the long journey ahead.
IndustryWeek February 23, 2010	Experts: Don't Blame Lean Manufacturing for Toyota's Problems Industry pundits say if anything company lost focus on lean values and didn't extend quality assurance to the engineering department.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Mark Thackeray	The Big Picture: Leadership Insights from the IW Best Plants -- Don't Check Your Brain At The Door... You'll Need It Staying mentally tuned-in is critical to General Cable's accomplishments and future success.
HBS Working Knowledge October 3, 2011 Michael Blanding	Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit Every manufacturing process leaves waste, but Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Deishin Lee believes much of this left-behind material can be put to productive and profitable use.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 John Teresko	How to Organize for Lean/Six Sigma To enable the maximum potential of lean/Six Sigma efforts, focus on more than the factory floor.
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 Robert Barker	Hospira Just May Put You In The Pink If the Abbott Laboratories spin-off's first steps hardly seem promising, that's one reason why I see the company as worth much more of the intelligent investor's attention than the long calendar of pending tech and biotech IPOs.
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The Motley Fool May 4, 2011 Alyce Lomax	This Common-Sense Change Makes Good Business Strategy Many companies are going green, but still struggling with how to get there.
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IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Thought Leaders -- Lean On Me Lean guru Jim Womack believes the world - though not necessarily manufacturing -- is marching in a lean direction.
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Bank Systems & Technology October 9, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Lessons for Banks to Learn from Lean Principles During Financial Crisis With the economic climate the way it is, banks today, more than ever, are beginning to take a closer look at the principles of Lean operating processes.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Putting Waste to Work Forget the landfill. Manufacturers are getting better at finding ways to reuse their waste.
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IndustryWeek September 16, 2009 Ralph Keller	Continuous Improvement -- What's the Future of U.S. Manufacturing? Some claim manufacturing is dying here but the numbers tell a different story.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2004 David Drickhamer	Lean Manufacturing: The 3rd Generation It's time for the younger crop of U.S. manufacturing leaders to take lean to the next level. Is your company ready for TPS2?
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IndustryWeek August 18, 2010	Lean Confusion It has been embraced, ignored, misunderstood and even derided, but lean's proponents continue to exhort its value as a driver of operational excellence.
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