What we think about it.
From our work with clients. What we see, what it means, what can be taken from it.
apx.ai: from data to control
Intelligent platform for operational control. Connects source systems, steers processes with data, surfaces variances before they become overruns.
Lean Group receives the TOP CONSULTANT 2025 seal
Lean Group has been recognised as TOP CONSULTANT 2025 for outstanding consulting quality and measurable results in the German Mittelstand.
85% of companies fail at implementation — how Lean Group supports your success
Lean Group helps companies deliver efficiency and transformation programmes successfully. Through tailored solutions and close collaboration with internal teams, we ensure sustainable results and long-term success. Our expertise: planning, execution and monitoring of your programmes.
Lean Construction live: an engaging workshop
A full-day seminar on lean construction gave students a practical look at the principles and methods of the approach. The highlight was the Lean Construction Hotel Simulation, in which participants optimised their processes across multiple rounds and experienced the benefits of takt planning and control. Feedback showed that theory and practice complemented each other well to make efficient project management tangible.
Digital tools and lean principles: new ways in construction planning
How digital tools like BIM and lean principles are reshaping construction planning. A worked example shows how these approaches lift the efficiency and quality of construction projects and define the future of the industry.
Efficiency in healthcare: a hospital takes a new path
How a leading hospital used targeted lean methods to double its efficiency, cut waiting times and lift patient satisfaction. Inside: multi-moment analysis, work-pressure analysis and shadowing.
Transformation to a "doer" organisation: the key to operational excellence
How modern companies can achieve operational excellence by transforming into "doer" organisations. Effective strategies for efficient processes, clear decision structures and increased employee engagement, to support competitiveness and innovation.
Lean digital transformation in construction: the Stavanger hospital case study
The use of lean methodology and advanced digital tools brought the Stavanger hospital project in Norway to international recognition. See how the fusion of digitalisation and lean principles produced an optimised project structure, a more efficient build process and the award for the world's best digital construction project.
Rescuing a supply chain: a case study in operational excellence in automotive
An automotive supplier was struggling with supply chain disruptions and cost pressure. See how productivity was lifted and supply capability secured.
Lean management in process plants: efficiency through takt and modularisation
How lean management produces efficiency gains and cost savings in process plants. Inside: modularisation, flow and takt across engineering, procurement, manufacturing and construction.
AI Management Consulting Services
Lean Group offers comprehensive consulting services for the effective adoption of AI: AI strategy, technology selection, implementation, plus data management, process optimisation and change management. Learn more about Lean Group's track record in AI management consulting.
Make your battery factory a success
Lean Group provides comprehensive consulting for battery manufacturers to ensure efficient, sustainable and cost-effective lithium-ion battery production. From project strategy and contracting through factory and logistics design, Lean Group supports companies in delivering their battery production projects and continuously improves value creation.
Top Consultants Award 2022 — for the third time in a row
Top Consultants Award 2022 — third time in a row. Lean Group has once again been recognised as one of Germany's best consultancies.
Lean Group goes Norway
At the start of the year, Lean Group founded a Norwegian subsidiary based in Stavanger.
TOP CONSULTANT 2021 — Lean Group awarded the consultancy seal
The TOP CONSULTANT competition examines consulting quality / scientifically grounded customer survey.
Lean administration: MMA for greater office productivity
Administrative processes hold valuable optimisation potential. In classical production, waste is identified through observation.
What is decisive for the production restart after a crisis?
Crises confront companies with challenges of unexpected magnitude. Production has to come back online after a standstill.
Takt planning and takt control: the origin of a method
Jörn Steinbeck transferred the assembly line to the project industry. The inventor of the project-management method takt planning / takt control (TPS) is Jörn Steinbeck.
Lean reorganisation: productively into the new future
Now is the time for strategic efficiency. Filip Specht has experience handling epidemiological challenges on board.
From a prototype line to efficiency: the transformation at VIA Optronics
VIA Optronics GmbH is a provider of interactive display solutions. Their portfolio covers Optical Bonding technology, copper-based metal-mesh touch sensors and customer-specific interactive display systems.
Happy New Year — and on to the next ten!
2020 has started as an eventful year for Lean Maritime: the consultancy is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Top Ten People: Theo Herzog profiled as a lean expert
Theo Herzog is one of the Top 10 Coaches profiled in November 2019 in a dedicated supplement of Lufthansa Exclusive Magazine and in January 2020 in Manager Magazin.
Lean Construction: "Industry 4.0 in single-piece manufacturing"
"Producing first results in a lean-construction pilot project is fairly easy," says Theo Herzog. The harder question is how to make it stick.
Cardboard simulation: students experience "Lean Construction"
In the summer semester of 2019, Lean Maritime partners Theo Herzog and Holger Segler taught students at the Institute of Geotechnical and Construction Engineering at TU Hamburg the idea and methods of "Lean Construction".
A lean nuclear power plant? A project example
Can lean process improvement work in industries with the highest safety standards? Project example: the Paluel nuclear power plant in Normandy, France.