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Increasing productivity is the main focus of lean, but making it real and sustainable—ensuring that the improvements achieved take hold and evolve—becomes a major challenge. That is what this case of an industrial construction project shows:
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Understand how Artesano Urbanismo achieved excellent productivity, schedule and environmental results right from the company's first project with the help of lean thinking.
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By changing its attitude toward problems and embracing them as learning opportunities, this Colombian construction company turned its culture around.
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See how this perfect union can generate more efficient processes with less waste while fostering a positive culture in projects.
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The turning point in this Colombian construction company's transformation came when they began embracing lean as a culture, rather than just a set of tools.
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Let's follow the success story of Andrade Gutierrez and how developing internal competencies and incorporating lean into the company's strategy and culture sustained this transformation.
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Impressive results, learning for new practices and visibility to take lean to other support areas. See how this was made possible for the companies that took part in the program offered through the partnership between Lean Institute Brasil and CTE.
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INTERVIEW - The editors of Planet Lean and the Lean Post recently met with a senior executive at Turner Construction in New York. Together, they discussed leadership development, respect for people and the future of the industry.
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On July 27, the PPFL first-semester 2018 class, guided by Mário Ferrari, wrapped up its journey in the course, with each participant presenting the A3 they had built during the learning period to address an important and urgent problem in their company. The presentation was yet another moment that showed how lean thinking can generate impressive results: even before the transformation plans were fully implemented, it was already possible to estimate significant and very interesting gains in terms of quantity, quality and workplace safety.
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