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Be a more effective leader and drive operational excellence. Learn at your own pace, on your own time. Enrollment is now open for “Lean Leadership: Building the Lean Culture.”  This is the first course to début in LeanCor’s online training program and the only one remotely like it on the market today.  The course is […]

March 21-22, 2013 | Florence, KY Keeping with the true spirit of PDCA, we have improved this workshop to include additional gemba time – both in the Operations Center and now at a Lean Fulfillment Center warehouse! Modeled after the Shingo- award winning workbook Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, this dynamic and highly interactive workshop teaches […]

  We’re launching a new video series on exploring lean! In this first episode, LeanCor’s Online Training Manager Julia Kirby interviews Robert Martichenko on Lean Leadership – Purpose and Value Alignment.   Enjoy!

Take a critical step on your lean journey! This educational video explores how lean principles can be bridged from our everyday lives to the workplace. With a healthy balance of teaching and “go see” discussion, this 28 minute video explores: Key elements of the lean enterprise Discussion on “value” vs. “non-value” added processes The seven […]

I began my Lean Journey on April 26, 2010. I had no idea what lean was, but I knew I wanted to learn more about it. I left my previous employer after a year and was in search of more of a career within the supply chain. I began networking and was contacted by a […]

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to be part of a start-up facility.  With any start-up comes lots of new challenges – mainly with implementation and then sustaining that implementation.  Plans are great in theory, but how do we get everyone on board and moving? As my facility team picked up speed it began to feel […]

Coming May 1st… Building a lean problem-solving culture begins and ends with people and leadership. While many books teach about lean tools, few address the day-to-day leadership requirements of successfully transforming organizations into the lean enterprise. In 15 easy-to-read-and-reference chapters, People: A leader’s day-to-day guide to building, managing, and sustaining lean organizations, outlines the high-level […]

If you could pick only one, what would you say is the single most influential area or process inside of your business that will determine your overall success, or failure, as a company for the next 20 years to come? A lot of things probably come to mind.  You might be thinking about your overall […]

It’s been four years now since I spent that fateful day with my daughter Abbey in her first grade classroom. The result of my day with Abbey was my writing the book Everything I Know about Lean I Learned in First Grade. I am very proud of the book as it was a labor of […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Waterloo, ON – March 1, 2012 – Third-Party Logistics Provider (3PL) LeanCor and the Laurier Executive Development Centre have added two key topics to the Lean Supply Chain Practitioner course being held April 16-19: Communication for Results and Change Management. In addition to gaining the skills necessary to lead their organization’s supply […]