Management Web Sites and Resources

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• Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek
  "The Gotta Go Lean Blog focuses on Lean at the front line. We help managers and employees work together to make Lean more productive for the company, and jobs more satisfying for workers."

• How to implement Lean Thinking in a Business by Tracey Richardson
  Blog by a trainer for Toyota and consultant.

• Improving Police by David C. Couper
  By the former chief of police of Madison, Wisconsin.

• Jamie Flinchbaugh by Jamie Flinchbaugh
  Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence. Jamie is a consultant and co-author of The Hitchhiker.s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road.

• Karen's blog by Karen Martin
  

• Lean Blitz
  Looks at lean ideas related specifically to sports organizations and sports small businesses

• Lean Edge by H. Thomas Johnson, Michael Ballé, Daniel T. Jones, Art Smalley, Jeffrey Liker, Steven Spear, Mike Rother
  "Lean management is a method to dramatically improve business performance by teaching people how to improve their own processes. The two main dimensions of lean management are continuous process improvement (going and seeing problems at the source, challenging operations and improving step by step) and respect for people (developing and engaging employees by developing teamwork, problem solving and respect for customers, employees and all other partners). ... The aim of the discussion [on the site] is to share different points of view and to collectively build a vision of lean management."

• Lean HR
  "A discussion of using Lean tools and technology to drive change and streamline processes throughout the HR value stream." by Dwane Lay

• Lean Journey
  "My Lean Journey started about 10 years ago with a career change from R&D to manufacturing. I started this Blog to share lessons along the way and chronicle 'My Lean Journey in the Quest for True North'. With so much emphasis on continuous improvement we often miss the true teaching of TPS (Thinking People System). Lean is a 'Learning' process so sharing your lessons and opinions are welcome."

• Lean Manufacturing Blog by Mark Graban
  News, articles and podcasts on the the lean manufacturing with a focus on health care by Mark Graban.

• Lean Simulations
  "The focus of this site is Lean training material, ready-to-use and free. I am searching the web for lean simulations, lean games, presentations, and real world examples. Please feel free to email me your material and I will link to it or post it."

• Lean Six Sigma for Law Enforcement
  Blog by Sergeant Billy Wilkerson (with the Jacksonville, Florida Shefiff's Office).

• Learning about Lean
  "I started writing Learning About Lean in September 2002. It chronicles my efforts to implement the Toyota Production System in now two different orginizational settings." by Joe Ely

• Management Innovation eXchange
  "an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. Current management practices emphasize control, discipline and efficiency above all else — and that's a problem. To thrive in the 21st century, organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring and socially accountable. That will require a genuine revolution in management principles and practices."

• Managers Are Heroes
  "In our world, the Manager is the Hero. Bringing justice to the world: Decreasing Conflict, Increasing Productivity – and Enhancing the Lives of all that cross their path... This blog is written by Mike Brown – who like all of you – is a manager, fighting the good fight."

• Manufacturing Leadership Center by Bill Waddell
  Bill Waddell shares his knowledge, opinions, experience and ideas to point out the failures of companies, organizations, and individuals in the manufacturing industry while also lauding those that understand true excellence.

• Markovitz Consulting by Daniel Markovitz
  Blog by Dan Markovitz on lean thinking and how managers can properly allocate their time.

• Not Running a Hospital by Paul Levy
  Author is a former hospital CEO and an "advocate for patient-driven care, eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement."

• People and Systems
  Blog by José María Raventos (in Spanish).

• Performance Improvement
  Blog by Glenn Whitfield focused on business management, lean, strategy, and related topics.