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Steve Yorkstone, now a senior consultant with Edinburgh Napier University, looks back on his experience in Lean Higher Education. ‘In 2006 I was part of the original lean team in the University of St Andrews. Now, over a decade after we started, after sitting down with St Andrews’ lean stalwart Mark for a good old …
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Running a small business involves wearing a lot of different hats. Whether that’s problem solver or communicator, organiser or financial whizz, sometimes we need a little extra help. However, in this age of technology, there are so many solutions in the form of Apps that the selection process can often be intimidating. As we dart …
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Finlay Miller, a lean consultant at the University of St Andrews, presents a light-hearted and personal look at the world of lean in cyberspace. The pitfalls and problems involved with bringing lean into the World Wide Web and how lean ideas can tackle the proliferation of non-value adding ephemera.Working with the web and its people …
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Confucius may have been the first experiential teacher… “Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.” – Confucius, circa 450 BC. Here at St Andrews Lean Consulting we agree with Confucius. Getting involved is the best way to learn new techniques and the most …
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Often when we talk to people implementing Lean in higher education we come across the opinion that running Lean on a project-based approach isn’t enough. This is a hard thing to hear for us, as we started our organisational Lean journey with a series of specific-process projects. Hard as it may seem, though, there is …
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