{"id":4,"date":"2016-04-22T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2016-05-25T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:54:25","slug":"what-is-lean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/what-is-lean\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Lean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Simply put\u2026 Maximizing value while minimizing waste<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Lean management is an approach to running an organization that supports the concept of continuous improvement, a long-term approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve small, incremental changes in processes in order to improve overall efficiency and quality. The philosophy and practice has its roots in manufacturing but it has been equally effective in service delivery organizations as well. Lean offers a simple, repeatable, and inclusive way to draw on the expertise of those doing the work, since they know best what works and what doesn&#8217;t! \u201cPeople are at the center of Bellevue College and the means through which we achieve excellence\u201d [BC Strategic Plan].<\/p>\n<h2>History of Lean<\/h2>\n<p>1913:\u00a0 Henry Ford credited with starting the Lean movement<\/p>\n<p>1930-1950\u2019s:\u00a0 Toyota invented the Toyota Production System based on Ford\u2019s original thinking<\/p>\n<p>1990:\u00a0 The thought process of Lean described in Jim Womack\u2019s book \u201cThe Machine That Changed the World\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1997:\u00a0 Jim Womack founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/lean.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lean Enterprise Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2KN8CCfu_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/what-is-lean\/principles\/\">Five Principles of Lean<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/what-is-lean\/waste\/\">Eight Areas of Waste<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply put\u2026 Maximizing value while minimizing waste Lean management is an approach to running an organization that supports the concept of continuous improvement, a long-term approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve small, incremental changes in processes in order to improve overall efficiency and quality. The philosophy and practice has its roots in manufacturing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/what-is-lean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Lean?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/lean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}