Planet Lean: The Official online magazine of the Lean Global Network
Leadership and business transformation go hand in hand

Leadership and business transformation go hand in hand

Michael Ballé
February 2, 2017

VIDEO – We constantly talk about the role of leadership, but perhaps we don't realize just how intertwined leadership transformation and business transformation really are. This short video discusses why.


By: Michael Ballé, author, executive coach and co-founder of Institut Lean France


To learn what it means to truly be a lean leader, follow Michael's own journey of lean discovery, as told in his new book Lead with Lean - On Lean Leadership and Practice

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THE INTERVIEWEE

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Michael Ballé is a lean author, executive coach and co-founder of the Institut Lean France

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Overcoming a kanban system’s scalability problems with digitalization
June 19, 2025
Overcoming a kanban system’s scalability problems with digitalization

CASE STUDY – Italian company El.Co. leveraged digitalization to overcome some key limitations of its manual kanban system while maintaining its pull system intact.

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Implementing lean management principles across government
February 24, 2015
Implementing lean management principles across government
lean transformation saskatchewan

CASE STUDY – The Canadian province of Saskatchewan is running a bold experiment: applying lean management across all government. The driving force? A “compelling vision.”

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These university students are replacing theses with A3s
April 20, 2018
These university students are replacing theses with A3s
A3s university Avans

INTERVIEW – In this Dutch university, lean is not only taught in the classroom. A3s are now replacing the writing of a thesis as the final assignment students are asked to complete.

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Making the Netherlands leaner and leaner
August 30, 2018
Making the Netherlands leaner and leaner

GETTING TO KNOW US – We continue our series of interviews with key Lean Global Network people with a chat with the President of Holland-based Lean Management Instituut.

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