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. Unlike manufacturing ...

, an adaption of lean manufacturing principles to the design and construction process ** Lean government, application of lean thinking to government **

Lean higher education Lean Higher Education (LHE) refers to the adaptation of lean thinking to higher education, typically with the goal of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Lean, originally developed at the Toyota Motor Corporation, is a manageme ...

, 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 A lean laboratory is one which is focused on processes, procedures, and infrastructure that deliver results in the most efficient way in terms of cost, speed, or both. Lean laboratory is a management and organization process derived from the concept ...

, application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory **

Lean manufacturing Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called just-in-time manufacturing ( ...

, a process improvement discipline **

Lean product development Lean product development (LPD) is a lean approach to counter the challenges of product development, notably: * Lack of innovative solutions * Long development cycle times * Many redevelopment cycles * High development costs * Long production cy ...

, 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 pr ...

, 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 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-dri ...

, how to start a company in a lean way

Other uses

* Lean (proof assistant), a mathematics tool * Lean (drug), based on cough syrup *

Le'an County Le'an County () is a county of central Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is ...

, in Jiangxi, China *

Lean meat Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chick ...

, meat with little fat content * An alternate name of lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush''), a fish * A slight advantage for one candidate in political forecasting

People with the surname

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 in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River ...

, 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 Frontie ...

, Malaysian economist *

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

, a Canadian rapper * Yung Lean, a Swedish musician

Business practices

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People with the surname

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