This paper aims to investigate the impact of Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy on Lean Leadership and Lean Culture, providing insights into how Lean Manufacturing companies can adapt their leadership and culture styles to succeed in the new business environment. We have conducted a systematic...

English Abstract: Lean thinking in healthcare: hospital procurement logistics and drug distribution – Taking into account the most recent literature on management of health care systems, this paper focuses on lean production, in order to assess the collective mindfulness in the healthcare. To...

Literature on healthcare supply chain management has shown that the lean system can provide significant benefits.It known that success in lean management doesn't come with employees but through current technology and clinical perfection.The effort of serving society causes hospitals to spend...

The purpose of this research study is to analyze the factors that prevent small and medium size enterprises from implementing lean manufacturing processes and show, that by not implementing lean they are missing out on savings, efficient workforce, and new markets in the globalization arena....

Based on three case studies, a new Lean financial model is developed. This new model improves the organization by increasing Lean goal congruent behavior. The new financial (costing) model uses the waste categories known from Lean in order to create decision information for Lean decisions such...