Quotes About Lean

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation.

Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing.

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It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

Severin wasn't handsome in comparison to the Challons- of course, what man would be?- nor was he handsome by strictly conventional standards. But there was something about him that women seemed to like. West was damned if he knew what it was. Severin's face was lean and angular, his build lanky and almost rawboned, his complexion librarian pale. His eyes were an unevenly distributed mixture of blue and green, so that in strong lighting they appeared to be two entirely different colors.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

Rules you can bend give you nothing to lean on.

newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and

In the real world, most criminals and powerful persons look lean and use only their mind. Only in films we see villains with a six-pack.

I lean against my sister's shoulder. I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice. Sure it does, Izzy tells me. But only if you're too dumb to move.

I skumringen kom mannen hennes tilbake fra heiene. Det var en mager kjempe som tok ett skritt der andre dødelige trengte tre.

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

I like the lean look but I also hate men who diet.

Batch size is a tremendously useful tool for reducing queues.

I believe that the dominant paradigm for managing product development is fundamentally wrong. Not just a little wrong, but wrong to its very core. It is as wrong as we were in manufacturing, before the Japanese unlocked the secret of lean manufacturing. I believe that a new paradigm is emerging, one that challenges the current orthodoxy of product development. I want to help accelerate the adoption of this new approach

reducing batch size before adding capacity at bottlenecks. Batch size reduction is cheaper than adding capacity, it is easy to sell to top management, and it massively reduces queues.

why American industry adopted lean manufacturing 30 to 40 years after these methods began to produce benefits in Japan? Was it because the Japanese hid this approach from Western eyes? No. American industry waited until the full-scale implementations of these ideas at Toyota could no longer be ignored.

My sister's clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it.

The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he'd not yet seen.

Regrets are far and few between but trying not to lean on the chances I never took makes even the days when you wake up feeling like a million bucks...all a reality check...doing your best at your worse on any giving day...nothing can keep you from greatness and regrets are nothing but pure motivation.