Lean, leaning or LEAN may refer to:

Business practices

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 *

Lean construction Lean construction is a combination of operational research and practical development in design and construction with an adoption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process. Lean Construction ...

, an adaptation of lean manufacturing principles to the design and construction process * Lean government, application of lean thinking to government * Lean higher education, application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education *

Lean integration Lean integration is a management system that emphasizes creating value for customers, continuous improvement, and eliminating waste as a sustainable data integration and system integration practice. Lean integration has parallels with other lean di ...

, application of lean manufacturing principles to data and systems integration *

Lean IT Lean IT is the extension of lean manufacturing and lean services principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services. Its central concern, applied in the context of IT, is the elimination of waste, where ...

, application of lean manufacturing principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services * Lean laboratory, application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory *

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 *

Lean product development Lean product development (LPD) is an approach to product development that specializes in minimizing waste. Other core principles include putting people over the product and creating new values in services and physical products. This method of pr ...

, lean thinking applied to product development *

Lean project management Lean project management is the application of lean concepts such as lean construction, lean manufacturing and lean thinking to project management. Lean project management has many ideas in common with other lean concepts; however, the main pri ...

, application of lean concepts to project management *

Lean services Lean services is the application of lean manufacturing production methods in the service industry (and related method adaptations). Lean services have among others been applied to US health care providers and the UK HMRC. History Definition of ...

, application of lean manufacturing principles in a service operation *

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 *

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

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 *

Lean (drug) Lean or purple drank (known by #Names, numerous local and street names) is a Polysubstance use, polysubstance drink used as a Recreational drug use, recreational drug. It is prepared by mixing prescription drug, prescription-grade Cold medici ...

, based on cough syrup * Le'an County, in Jiangxi, China *

Lean meat Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of vertebrates, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, hor ...

, meat with little fat content * An alternate name of

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 Santa Rosa is a Colombian municipality located in the department of Cauca, in the region known as the Bota Caucana. It is located on the eastern slope of the Colombian Massif, the mountainous area where the Central and Oriental Cordilleras me ...

, Colombia

People with the surname

Big Lean Lorenzo Lee-Jae Wright (born February 11, 1989), better known by his stage name Big Lean, is a Canadian rapper from Toronto, Ontario. Lean began making music in 2008, two years after his friend and rapper Blits was shot dead as he felt that he ...

, a Canadian rapper *

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 *

Hooi Hooi Lean Hooi Hooi Lean is a Malaysian economist and a professor at the School of Social Sciences in the Economics program at University of Science, Malaysia. Lean acts as an associate editor of Singapore Economic Review, Capital Market Review and Fronti ...

, Malaysian economist *

Jonathan Lean David Jonathan Rees Lean (born 29 May 1952) retired as Dean of St David's in the autumn of 2017. Lean was born in Fishguard on 29 May 1952, educated at St David's University College, Lampeter, and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, a ...

, 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 ...

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

Business practices

Other uses

People with the surname

See also