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Corporate Culture: what it is, importance, types and examples

• 7/1/2025

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Lean culture: learn what it is and what its purpose is

• 6/20/2025

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Assess whether your company's culture can stall or advance management

A deeply rooted and widespread organizational culture leads people to adopt specific behaviors within organizations, and that is where the problem—or the solution—may lie

• Lean strategy
• Flávio Augusto Picchi
• 2 min read
• 12/7/2023

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Greenfield

A new production plant, which offers the opportunity to introduce lean work methods into a new work culture in which the inertia of the past will not be a barrier. Compare with : Brownfield.

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Lean leadership: the link between strategy, execution and organizational culture

• 9/22/2025

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Agribusiness: a global paradox

Lean thinking is redefining agriculture by turning farms into continuous learning systems, boosting productivity, reducing waste and empowering people through daily problem solving.

• Lean leadership
• Management
• Iniciativa Agro da Lean Global Network
• 8 min read
• 11/27/2025

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Building a learning hospital

NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – At GHU Paris (Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris), leadership combines strategy with gemba visits, problem solving using the 5C method and cross-functional learning to create a resilient, people-centered improvement culture in psychiatric care.

• Lean culture
• Healthcare
• Catherine Chabiron
• 12 min read
• 9/23/2025

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The digital transformation that has not yet happened

Technology is no longer a differentiator – it is a minimum expectation. The real challenge lies in integrating strategy, culture and management so that digital transformation goes beyond the surface and becomes a real engine of value and continuous reinvention

• Lean strategy
• Digital and technology
• Flávio Battaglia
• 4 min read
• 5/7/2025

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Lean at SMC: a “Brazilian recipe” for transforming a company worldwide

How, in just two years and on its own initiative, the Brazilian branch of one of the leading Japanese companies in the global pneumatics market achieved enviable indicators, reshaped structures, mindsets and cultures, and is thereby consolidating and boosting the organization's Brazilian and global relevance among SMC's 84 operations worldwide

• Lean culture
• Industry and Manufacturing
• Lean Institute Brasil
• 32 min read
• 12/4/2024

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Processes must incorporate “poka-yoke” to be error-proof

A company-wide culture of seeking out, preventing and minimizing sources of potential errors, keeping them from reaching customers, can reduce greater losses, whether in winning back the consumer or in correcting failures that occur

• Lean strategy
• Flávio Augusto Picchi
• 3 min read
• 5/25/2023

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Starship explosion: learning from mistakes is essential to innovate

Just as in sophisticated space programs, companies can also benefit from a culture of successive experiments and learning accumulated through successes and failures

• Lean strategy
• Flávio Augusto Picchi
• 3 min read
• 4/26/2023

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Breaking the silence

By changing its attitude toward problems and embracing them as learning opportunities, this Colombian construction company turned its culture around.

• Lean culture
• Construction
• Ângela Bayona
• 6 min read
• 2/16/2023

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