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Install LEAN for a continuous improvement engine. The five steps of the LEAN process are: 
#Defining customer value; 
#Defining the value stream; 
#Making it flow; 
#Pulling from the customer back; and 
#Striving for excellence. 

LEAN focuses on implementing the high-level principles of long-term thinking, eliminating waste from work processes, respecting people and partners and con-tinuously learning and improving.


==Related Best Practices==

*[[Lean]]
*[[Changing Your Organization]]
*[[ The Living Company - Learning Organizations]]

==Resources==
*''Triumph of the Lean Production System'',  John Krafcik, article (1988)
*''The Toyota Way'',  Jeffrey K. Liker, McGraw-Hill (2004)
*''Lean Thinking'',  James Womack and Daniel Jones, Free Press; 2nd edition edition (2003)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing Lean manufacturing] page on Wikipedia
* [http://www.lean.org The Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.] (LEI), founded by James P. Womack in 1997, is a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization with many resources on Lean.

==Author==

The author of this page is Terry Gardiner

{{Terry Gardiner}}