Lean, leaning or LEAN may refer to:
Business practices
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Lean thinking
Lean thinking is a management framework made up of a philosophy, practices and principles which aim to help practitioners improve efficiency and the quality of work. Lean thinking encourages whole organisation participation. The goal is to organis ...
, a business methodology adopted in various fields
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Lean construction, an adaptation of lean manufacturing principles to the design and construction process
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Lean government, application of lean thinking to government
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Lean higher education, application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education
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Lean integration, application of lean manufacturing principles to data and systems integration
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Lean IT, application of lean manufacturing principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services
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Lean laboratory, application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory
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Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a methods of production, method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the Operations management#Production systems, production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers. It is ...
, a process improvement discipline
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Lean product development, lean thinking applied to product development
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Lean project management, application of lean concepts to project management
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Lean services, application of lean manufacturing principles in a service operation
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Lean software development
Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, it is emerging with the support of a pro-lean subculture within the ag ...
, lean manufacturing principles applied to software development
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Lean startup
Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable; this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-dr ...
, how to start a company in a lean way
Other uses
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Lean (proof assistant)
Lean is a proof assistant and a Functional programming, functional programming language. It is based on the calculus of constructions with inductive types. It is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. Development is currently supported by the N ...
, a mathematics tool
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Lean (drug), based on cough syrup
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Le'an County, in Jiangxi, China
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Lean meat, meat with little fat content
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lake trout
The lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') is a freshwater Salvelinus, char living mainly in lakes in Northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, laker, and grey trout. In Lake Sup ...
(''Salvelinus namaycush''), a fish
* A slight advantage for one candidate in
political forecasting
Political forecasting aims at forecasting the outcomes of political events. Political events can be a number of events such as diplomatic decisions, actions by political leaders and other areas relating to politicians and political institutions. ...
* Lean House, a religious lodging in
Santa Rosa, Cauca, Colombia
People with the surname
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Big Lean, a Canadian rapper
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David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of Cinema of the United Kingdom, British cinema. He directed the large-scale epi ...
, English film director, producer and editor
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Hooi Hooi Lean, Malaysian economist
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Jonathan Lean, former Dean of
St Davids Cathedral
St Davids Cathedral () is a Church in Wales cathedral situated in St Davids, Britain's smallest city, in the county of Pembrokeshire, near the most westerly point of Wales.
Early history
Monastery of Saint David, Wales, A monastic community was ...
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Yung Lean
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad (born 18 July 1996), known professionally as Yung Lean, is a Swedish rapper. Widely cited as one of the most influential figures in the early cloud rap era, Yung Lean rose to prominence in 2013 with his song " Gins ...
, a Swedish musician
See also
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LARGe SCM, Integration of Lean with Agile, Resilience, and Green in
Supply Chain Management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished produc ...
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Lien (disambiguation)
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Leen (disambiguation)
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Leane (disambiguation)
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