Many companies allocate significant resources to implementing lean on the manufacturing
shop floor, but fewer resources to implementing lean in the product development processes …

The concept of lean product development has attracted the attention of many scholars since
its inception in the 1990s derived from practices at Toyota Motor Company. Key to this …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between the
implementation of Lean shop floor (LSF) practices and Lean supply chain management, and …

Purpose Nowadays manufacturers companies are increasingly compelled to navigate
towards servitization. Different methods and approaches were proposed in literature to …

For manufacturers investing in Industry 4.0 technologies could not be enough to be
competitive. They also need to assess their actual digital status quo and to evaluate how …

Circular economy (CE) is necessary for achieving sustainability goals. Nonetheless, the
distillation of CE practices into business operations has been unsatisfactory as firms struggle …

The lean product development (LPD) approach uses lean principles and enablers (tools,
techniques and practices) to reduce waste and continuously improve the product …

This paper represents a real case study provided in a medium-size insurance company
based on analysis that has been made regarding whether to apply the agile methodology of …

The rudiments and repercussions of the transformative global economy have reshaped the
Service Management industry and other developed economies. Business process …

Information security and quality management are often considered two different fields.
However, organizations must be mindful of how software security may affect quality control …