In business

• Lean Startup
  Lean Startup
  "Lean startup" is a term coined by Eric Ries, his method advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional product development practices, such as the Waterfall model...
  
  , how to start a company
  Company
  A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
  
   in a lean way
• Lean manufacturing
  Lean manufacturing
  Lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, or lean production, often simply, "Lean," is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination...
  
  , process improvement discipline
• Lean construction
  Lean construction
  Lean Construction is a combination of original research and development in design and construction with an adaption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process. Unlike manufacturing, construction is a project based-production process...
  
   is a translation and adaption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process
• Lean Laboratory
  Lean laboratory
  A lean laboratory is one which is focused on testing products and materials to deliver results in the most efficient way in terms of cost or speed or both. Lean laboratory is a management and organization process derived from Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System...
  
  , application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory
• Lean services
  Lean services
  Lean services is the application of the lean manufacturing concept to service operations. It is distinct in that Lean services are not concerned with the making of ‘hard’ products....
  
  , application of lean manufacturing principles in a service operation
• Lean software development
  Lean software development
  Lean software development is a translation of Lean manufacturing and Lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community....
  
  , lean manufacturing principles to software development
• Lean Higher Education
  Lean Higher Education
  Lean Higher Education is the application of the Lean management to Higher Education both in administration and academic activities . Today, the application of Lean management in higher education is most prevalent in administrative activities...
  
  , application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education
• Lean Six Sigma
  Lean Six Sigma
  In recent years, some practitioners have combined Six Sigma ideas with lean manufacturing to yield a methodology named Lean Six Sigma. Lean manufacturing – addressing process flow and waste issues – and Six Sigma, with its focus on variation and design, are viewed as complementary disciplines in...
  
  , combination of lean and six sigma
  Six Sigma
  Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986. , it is widely used in many sectors of industry.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and...
  
   approaches.

Other

• Sir David Lean, English film director, producer and editor
• Le'an County
  Le'an County
  Le'an County is a county of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou.- External links : -...
  
  , in Jiangxi, China
• Louisiana Environmental Action Network
• Lake trout
  Lake trout
  Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char , touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, they can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbellies and leans...
  
   (Salvelinus namaycush), a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America
• Lean, also called "purple drank
  Purple drank
  Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, originating in Houston, Texas. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as...
  
  " "sizzurp," or "syrup," a recreational drug based on cough syrup
• Lean meat

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