TEAM TIME: Going lean is a true team effort, because it means anticipating the needs of employees whose jobs are several steps down the line. July 9, 2018 At B&I Contractors’ job sites, workers aren’t ...

Zandy, CEO of Skiles Group and co-author of The Lean Builder, will be recognized for his leadership with an award presentation on October 26 at LCI’s 25 th Congress ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS ...

SAN DIEGO I work for a contracting company, and I have a few question about the article in your magazine called "Lean thinking works in construction too" (February 2005, pg. 5; archived at ...

The software industry at the turn of the century needed a new direction. After years of preparing for Y2K, and then the dot-com crash, it was time for change. Industry leaders came together and ...

Only a grocer would envy the construction business’s 3%-to-5% profit margins. On average, only about half of construction work planned for a given week gets done on schedule. Those two data points are ...

The Lean construction movement is on the march. Its parent organization, the Lean Construction Institute, celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. LCI now has 218 corporate members, 38 owner members ...

If you’ve heard some buzz about Lean tools and principles, you’re not alone. Lean tools got their start in America as early as the 1900s, when Henry Ford used Lean methodology to create the Model T ...