{"id":6120,"date":"2019-01-11T03:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2019-01-11T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T07:25:18","slug":"lean-a3-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/lean-a3-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean A3 Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently took a course on Lean Fundamentals. Per Wikipedia, Lean thinking is a business methodology that aims to provide a new way to think about how to organize human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> From my perspective and the PMP Book of Knowledge that has been drilled into my daily processes, the Lean way\u2026is much easier to follow and implement in an organization. Yes, it took me at least 3 months to figure it out. 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