Lean solutions represent an evolved method of approaching how business is done. It’s all about transparency, about you and your colleagues being accountable and maximizing efficiency to bring the most value to your customers. At the team level, lean processes help guide teams and individuals to optimize their efforts; accentuate the positives; and unveil, and ultimately correct, the negatives. A focus on analytics and agility in response to market changes is the name of the game.

In 2016, LeanKit set out to establish our first lean business survey in an effort to learn more about how lean tactics are being applied in knowledge work. During the course of two years, the survey data have been compiled into the “Lean Business Report.” Through this report, we hope to tell the story of how the lean business movement is spreading and transforming some of the world’s most competent and successful organizations, often one team at a time.

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