Planet Lean: The Official online magazine of the Lean Global Network
John Shook on transformations and lean in a crisis

John Shook on transformations and lean in a crisis

John Shook
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November 4, 2022

VIDEO INTERVIEW – We recently caught up with John Shook at the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference in Stanford and asked him to share his thought on the questions we need to ask ourselves in a lean journey and on lean in turbulent times.


Interviewee: John Shook, Senior Advisor, Lean Global Network

Interviewer: Roberto Priolo, Editor, Planet Lean



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John Shook
John Shook is Senior Advisor to the Lean Global Network

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Pioneering lean thinking in hotels
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Pioneering lean thinking in hotels

FEATURE – Dreamplace Hotels in Tenerife have been on an improvement journey for several years, but only recently did they find a way to truly become a learning organization: lean thinking.

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Change management at an airline catering business using lean thinking
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Change management at an airline catering business using lean thinking

INTERVIEW - Having to adapt to changing customer needs, KLM Catering Services decided to turn to lean thinking, reducing its changeover times and recycling more.

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A people-centric lean HR strategy
June 20, 2019
A people-centric lean HR strategy

CASE STUDY – This automotive parts supplier based in southwest Spain is discovering the power of lean thinking applied to recruitment and Human Resources.

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Drawing inspiration from a factory's kaizens and dojos
April 11, 2018
Drawing inspiration from a factory's kaizens and dojos

BUILDING BRIDGES – This month, a CTO explains how his software company borrowed the kaizen spirit – and the idea of a dojo – from an avionics factory and put it to good use.

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