This year, Planet Lean seeks to understand what the future of work looks like in a world with AI. To kick us off and get us thinking, we are publishing an article resulting from a one-hour conversation between a human and a machine.

Earlier this month, we attended a Lean Day at Dreamplace Hotels and Resorts in the Canary Islands. We sat down with two Lean leaders to discuss their companies' transformations.

Yesterday, our new colleague Patrick Saleh started at LMI. He had already been working with Lean for several years as a team leader at Koninklijke Vezet B.V.

In this interesting piece, Michael Ballé explains how Lean provides a framework for everyone and everywhere to work on their intuition muscle and develop insights.

John Shook on Lean transformations, Lean in crisis and lifelong learning.

We are often asked what the difference is between Lean, Agile and Scrum. We'd like to explain to you below how these disciplines relate to each other.

Prior to his presentation at the Lean Global Connection, Huibert-Jan den Hartog shares his thoughts on the current energy crisis and discusses how Lean is helping E.ON weather it.

Lean is a way to improve processes. When we talk about Lean, we often talk about the various Lean principles, Lean methods and Lean techniques with which you can improve processes and thus your work.

The book Raise the bar - From zero to 1 billion shares the lessons learned in growing the Aramis Group up to its IPO on Euronext.

Outdoor Life Group is transforming its order picking process using Lean to increase the number of orders it can process daily.

Every Lean generation has faced challenges, and it is essential that we understand the context around us if we are to continue to grow our community.

To ease the transition to a new organization of work in their department, a group of nurses at Erasmus Medical Center used the Lean technique Training Within Industry (TWI).

Inge Otten, former Business Navigator who is now responsible for process improvement within IKEA, looks back on what she learned in one of the company's stores and explains how she hopes to bring Lean to the entire group.

Our editor recently spoke with Kjeld Aij, the director of the largest hospital in the Netherlands, and asked him about the Lean transformation he is leading there.

How Lean Thinking contributes to a more efficient and effective way of dealing with problems.

How in a Lean organization, relationships are structured around learning opportunities rather than execution. This ultimately allows a company to grow.

Is there such a thing as a "learning organization? Can an organization learn at all? And if so, how do you build a learning organization? Or is an organization an abstract concept and only people can learn?

What is the contribution of Lean Thinking to the fight against climate change? Michael Ballé discusses the Toyota approach to sustainability and what it takes to get "green" to the top of the corporate agenda.

This hotel in Spain has been able to apply Lean Thinking in its restaurant to successfully adapt to the new Covid-19 regulations in place in the country, becoming more efficient in the process.

What does it take to support a Lean transformation from within? A reflection on the role of the Lean team in the turnaround of the Brazilian insurance company SulAmérica.

The lean transformation of oil and gas supplier Beerenberg.

Jonny Mooi is Head of Distribution at UMCG, manages the Logistic Center Eemspoort that provides logistics for the UMCG, the Martini Hospital Groningen and the Ommelander Hospital Groningen. Jonny has years of experience working with Lean and is fully committed to making their organization better with Lean.

The Corona pandemic is pushing healthcare systems around the world to their limits, and despite the heroic efforts of healthcare professionals, hard work is often not enough.

A Dutch transmission system operator is using Lean Planning - built around the Last Planner system - to better manage its complex infrastructure projects.

5S is one of the most important Lean tools. What exactly is 5S and how is it deployed in organizations? And what does it actually deliver!

A school board discovers the potential of Lean thinking and improves its processes to address teacher overload.

Is "lean fire-fighting" an oxymoron? It isn't if you are the Grand Rapids Fire Department, which has not only transformed itself, but has taken the lead in a Lean transformation of the entire city.

Last year, the Lean Global Network partnered with the Singapore Institute of Technology to bring Lean capabilities to local SMEs. Along the way, we discovered an alternative approach to academic education.

Somehow it is surprising that business schools teach very little about management, and if they do, all the learning is classroom-based. Instead, they should go to gemba.

This month we talk to an urban strategist to see if and how Lean can help transform our cities.

When we think of innovation, we rarely think of government, and yet the public sector is in dire need of modernization and improvement. Pierre Pezziardi is on a mission to bring innovation to the French government.

The theory of hoshin kanri is clear, but how do you apply it in a government organization structured in departments where making A3s is not an everyday practice? Rijswaterstaat shares its experience.

The historic city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands has implemented Lean thinking and practice in local government to provide better and faster services to its citizens.

Addressing failure costs and introducing a new quotation process are just two of the ways construction company Dura Vermeer is successfully implementing a Lean transformation.