CHAPTER 1

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The Long Evolution of Lean

It’s time for a new generation of Lean and continuous improvement in general. The need for improvement and the new opportunities for improvement continue to evolve at a much faster rate than most organizations can understand and take advantage of. In fact, there are more opportunities for improvement today and into the future than there have been in the history of improvement. Most organizations have more opportunities for improvement today than they did when they began their Lean and Six Sigma journeys a decade ago. The largest opportunities are the ones that are yet to be discovered.

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