Lean Newspaper

Lean Action Item List or Lean Newspaper... 

After the technical assessment, the findings are presented to the steering team, and based on these findings they determine what events should be scheduled next. Then it again becomes the facilitator s task to organize, evaluate, and train the next event team so that they can move the Lean process forward. Each event creates an action item list that is referred to as a Lean newspaper this action item list is then moved forward until each action item is resolved. 

Using Chart 8.2 as the current state and Chart 8.7 as the future state, we can now generate an action item list of improvements. In some Lean activities, this list is referred to as the Lean Newspaper. These improvements are highlighted in Chart 8.8 where we see the specific areas that are targeted for change. ... 

Lean Action Item List or Lean Newspaper (see earlier in this chapter)... 

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