Planet Lean: The Official online magazine of the Lean Global Network
Lean's on the menu

Lean's on the menu

Javier Gomez, Leo Milanesio, Aaron Quintana and Pedro González
June 7, 2023

VIDEO INTERVIEW – This hotel in the Canary Islands is bringing lean to its Kitchen Department, hoping to streamline the process and provide a better service to diners.


Interviewees: Javier Gomez, Leo Milanesio, Aaron Quintana and Pedro González



THE INTERVIEWEES

Javier Gomez (left) is Director of Hotel Cristina. Leo Milanesio (right) is a Change Agent.
Aaron Quintana (left) is Kitchen Manager at Hotel Cristina. Pedro González (right) is Maitre at Hotel Cristina.

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What Toyota and the Green Berets have in common
April 9, 2015
What Toyota and the Green Berets have in common

INTERVIEW - What do the United States Army’s Special Forces unit and Toyota have in common? To find out, we spoke to the Green Berets’ former Director of Training at the LEI summit in New Orleans.

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Michael Ballé on how a yamazumi chart enables standard work
June 19, 2018
Michael Ballé on how a yamazumi chart enables standard work

THE TOOLS CORNER – Standardizing the work is one of the fundamentals of lean thinking, but without a yamazumi chart visualizing it (and helping us to streamline it) this is impossible.

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Operation Sunflower: saving Christmas
December 16, 2022
Operation Sunflower: saving Christmas

FICTION – Santa is struggling to locate the many children who are hiding from war to deliver them gifts, until the lean Time Benders come to the rescue and help him understand the problem.

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Lean and psychological safety
November 7, 2024
Lean and psychological safety

FEATURE – What is psychological safety? What is it not? This article explores its advantages and foundational elements, and how organizations need to transform their leadership to achieve this evolution in management.

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