Lean Resources

The iSixSigma website is a great source of information where you will find a wealth of articles that will help you understand what goes into a Six Sigma project. The DMAIC methodology is the Six Sigma formal problem-solving tool. Loads of information and links to keep you occupied for hours.
www.isixsigma.com

The Lean Enterprise Academy is a not-for-profit organisation established to develop knowledge of Lean thinking and practice, and to disseminate this knowledge through resources including publications and workshops. The website contains many useful articles and recommended publications. The Academy’s founder and chairman, Dan Jones, has written some of the most important books about Lean.
www.leanuk.org

The BBC Radio Four's In Business programme is always worth listening to and you can listen to old programmes by going to the In Business website.

If you want to learn more about how Lean has helped Toyota to become the world's biggest car maker and why the American car industry is suffering so much, listen to the programme titled Car Industry. It includes and interview with James Womack, joint author of The Machine That Changed The World and a very rare interview with the Chairman of Toyota, Fujio Cho.

The From the production line to the NHS programme looks at how lean is starting to be used in the NHS. It includes an interview with Dan Jones of the Lean Enterprise Academy and the other joint author of The Machine That Changed The World.

 If you go to 3t Transformations   you will find some really useful material with some highly focused content describing best practice for KPIs, queues and many other topics

Concrete Heads is another fascinating site with some great insights into the development of lean. Although it is based in manufacturing, there is still great material about cultural change, standard work and other topics of interest to people using lean in offices