Sentences with phrase «of lean thinking»

Dan Linna is also very well known, of course, for his leading and groundbreaking expertise in the area of lean thinking as applied to the delivery of legal services.

A hallmark of Lean thinking is to focus on what the client really cares about, which in today's market is improving speed, efficiency and quality.

«A hallmark of lean thinking is to focus on what the client really cares about, which in today's market is improving speed, efficiency and quality.»

If you wander through companies across the United States, you can see remnants of lean thinking efforts in front offices, back offices, and on factory floors.

As a fundamental component of lean thinking, the one - week kaizen event sucks.

Rather than find ways to build the basics of lean thinking into the business, companies started with kaizen events.

Manufacturers strenuously resisted the ideas of lean thinking, because reason told them they wouldn't work.

Not exact matches

While we've come to think of the iconic PB&J as a convenient, healthy alternative to a sandwich made with lean meats or veggies, a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich packs more sugar and calories than the standard turkey and cheese or hummus sandwich — and has less protein, a key muscle - building ingredient that also helps keep you feeling full until your next meal.

The Montreal Economic Institute, a right - leaning think tank, also points out that the total annual pay to the top 100 CEOs, at slightly under $ 1 billion total, is tiny compared to the size of the economy overall and in comparison to the size of the federal government.

To explore the places where design thinking and lean startup intersect, we organized a conversation between two faculty members who help run the Stanford Graduate School of Business Startup Garage, where students design and test new ventures.

The left - leaning think tank wants Canadian businesses and the federal government to put up $ 670 million each a year to create new jobs, internships and training positions that would guarantee employment to those under the age of 25.

Which way you lean in this Presidential campaign depends a lot on whether you think government spending is capable of doing any good, or whether it is by its nature obstructionist.

Steve Blank today solidly declares himself on board with the line of thinking that after the lean - start - up period of the past decade, we're back in a new dot - com bubble.

After dropping out of a PhD program at Duke University to, in his own words «pursue a life of thought - crime,» Spencer worked as an editor at a variety of right - leaning publications including Taki's Magazine, American Conservative, and the National Review, and was fired from the latter two for his extreme and racist views.

But I think a lot of guys have a sense of what they look good in, and they just need access to it,» says Spaly, a lean, scruffily handsome Michigan native clad in a pistachio - green button - down shirt and designer jeans direct from the Trunk Club catalog.

I like to think Nicole has pursued a woman's version of a lean startup.

I think of The Leader's Guide as a kind of master class in applying the Lean Startup methodology.

«Trump campaigned on the negative impacts of trade and trade deals like NAFTA on working Americans, but here instead he is intervening not to help working people but to help American investors and American multinational companies,» Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Economic Policy Institute, a left - leaning think tank, told me in an interview in the runup to the investigation announcement.

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

The left - leaning think tank said the finding was «worrisome» because Toronto and Vancouver have seen some of the biggest increases in cost of living over the same period, with the price of houses, in particular, skyrocketing by 37 per cent in Toronto and 62 per cent in Vancouver.

* Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to make Groups Smarter by Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie * The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge * Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom De Marco, Tim Lister Kaizen Express: Fundamentals for your Lean Journey by Toshiko Narusawa and John Shook Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement by Gen Stanley McChrystal Targeted: How Technology is revolutionising advertising and the way companies reach consumers by Mike Smith Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Sustained M&A Growth by Ed Paulson Opposable Mind: Winning through integrative thinking by Roger Martin Inspired: How to create products customers love by Marty Cagan

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-LRB-...) The paper was written by Jim Parrott, a former housing advisor in the Obama White House who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a left - leaning think tank, and Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.

The Bank of Canada leans heavily on its quarterly poll of executives, as the exercise offers a window into the thinking of the men and women who hire and fire.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

A number of commentators, led by the right - leaning C.D. Howe Institute think tank, have argued the government should scale back CMHC's role in the mortgage - insurance market.

The list of what Amazon wants is extensive, including leaning toward a metro area of more than 1 million people, a stable and friendly business environment and «communities that think big and creatively when considering locations and real estate options.»

While some academics have begun to question whether there needs to be new rules to limit the power of tech giants, almost no one in libertarian - leaning Silicon Valley thinks Facebook should be further regulated, with some saying it forces the best entrepreneurs to be more creative.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

With an emphasis on the «Lean» methodologies for innovative thought, startup and deployment being applied to clinical healthcare, Todd explores the importance and common pitfalls of developing business models, value propositions and strategies to assess the capacity for innovation and change.

The left - leaning think tank has been putting out a survey of Canada's CEO earnings since 2005 in an effort to highlight how incomes at the top end of Canada's economy have run away from the pack.

There are some agnostic theists, who are not sure about a god, but lean toward accepting one or another of them, but I think that the majority of agnostics live without belief and conduct their daily lives atheistically.

The political unpopularity of the platform as it came out of committee has appeared to be a bit of scandal in the news, but I thought that was simply because I read more right - leaning news sources than left - leaning.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

The thought of atheism for many would make them lean towards thinking that they would be more likely to lean towards conception not being the start of life.

I think God had been protecting me until I was leaning on Him completely before all of this happened to me.

It made me think of the dream Joseph interpreted for Pharaoh, the seven fat cow and seven lean.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

I also think that in some cases people choose against their biological leaning, for a number of reasons, and live with the difficulty of going against their own nature.

I think that is a sign that quite a few liberal - leaning elites who don't think of themselves as professional liberal partisans are starting to have second thoughts.

I think those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ and His teaching need to pledge our allegiance first to Christ and His kingdom and not to a political party — maybe more clarity will come if we all prayerfully seek the will of the Lord and allow that to influence our political leanings — rather than the other way around.

It is hard to see how the vision of the coming kingdom of God outlined by one theorist commonly associated with the political right differed all that much from the goals of left - leaning, free - thinking secularists:

However, in these passages Whitehead leans onesidedly toward an attribution of generality to conceptual thought alone.

I indicated earlier that the NIV translation of the Bible leans heavily toward Calvinistic thinking and theology, and 1 Corinthians 2:14 is an example of one such place.

Excellent kana, never mind what this fools think in their corrupt minds, let them, is there choice, God's people are different from them because we don't believe in him through our minds, we believe in Him because of our heart: «Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.

So many of us lean toward conformity, and think others should do the same.

I often get responses from people who lean toward Option 1 as well, but in my experience, most of these people are having thoughts and ideas about Option 2, and it scares them, so they fight against it by leaving comments on blogs like mine.

Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz

In the end, however, Feezell's moderate view (which leans toward the «conservative view») is not too much different in practical effect from my or Hartshorne's moderate view (which leans toward the «liberal view») in that I am only delivering a carte blanche for abortion in the early stages of pregnancy and pointing out that the fetus in the later stages of pregnancy has a moral status analogous to that of an animal, a status which I think deserves considerable attention on our part.