Lean Explained

Lean, leaning or LEAN may refer to:

Business practices

• Lean thinking, a business methodology adopted in various fields
• Lean construction, an adaptation of lean manufacturing principles to the design and construction process
• Lean government, application of lean thinking to government
• Lean higher education, application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education
• Lean integration, application of lean manufacturing principles to data and systems integration
• Lean IT, application of lean manufacturing principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services
• Lean laboratory, application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory
• Lean manufacturing, a process improvement discipline
• Lean product development, lean thinking applied to product development
• Lean project management, application of lean concepts to project management
• Lean services, application of lean manufacturing principles in a service operation
• Lean software development, lean manufacturing principles applied to software development
• Lean startup, 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, in Jiangxi, China
• Lean meat, meat with little fat content
• An alternate name of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), a fish
• A slight advantage for one candidate in political forecasting
• Lean House, a religious lodging in Santa Rosa, Cauca, Colombia

People with the surname

• Big Lean, a Canadian rapper
• David Lean, English film director, producer and editor
• Hooi Hooi Lean, Malaysian economist
• Jonathan Lean, former Dean of St Davids Cathedral
• Yung Lean, a Swedish musician

See also

• LARGe SCM, Integration of Lean with Agile, Resilience, and Green in Supply Chain Management
• Lien (disambiguation)
• Leen (disambiguation)
• Leane (disambiguation)