Under Hagan, the company has become as lean as its cover girls (and, increasingly, boys).
He keeps Thor's headquarters as lean as it was when the company was struggling to keep Airstream rolling.
Mr Milner wants to keep things as lean as his internet businesses.
"As we add work, we'll be adding people because we've got the thing down to as lean as we can get it now, " said Steven Meitzen, Clairson's director of sales and marketing.
Carmakers may never be able to build a business as lean and as flexible as this, but they are working on similar lines to keep their customers happy.
Small businesses that are still healthy and credit worthy are busy right now trying to (1) get as lean and efficient as possible, and (2) build fortress balance sheets.
Just as American firms spent the 1980s embracing Japanese techniques such as lean production, European and Asian ones are restructuring fast.
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
Chrysler has come as close to producing cars to the legendary Toyota lean standard as any other company.
Mistakenly, most PR execs are convinced the world lives and dies on the pages of media such as The Wall Street Journal, and lean toward using speakisms such as "strategic, " "results-oriented, " and "synergies, " words that have little meaning to actual human beings.
It is important to take in adequate amounts of lean protein such as chicken, fish, lean red meat, egg whites, low-fat cottage cheese or a protein supplement.
LeanLaunchLab is one of a growing number of tools that aim to structure emerging startup best practices such as lean startup, customer development, and business model canvas.
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The Huffington Post reported earlier this week that iPhones were sold out at Apple's New York stores, hinting that the company may be trying to keep supplies of its current generation lean as it prepares to add a new handset to the mix.
The early taste for deal-making stuck with Blixseth through his lean years as a songwriter.
Rapid market validation and user feedback are necessary to move forward as a lean startup.
As a lean organization, we carefully reviewed our online objectives in relation to manpower.
"We're a pretty lean organization as it is, " Ford told The Associated Press.
Students may lean left as a group, but they are still not the most active voters in the population.
My philosophy going into this project, was for this to be a lean startup as much as possible.
The gods of irony smiled upon those of us making this point over the weekend as the Lean In story circulated alongside another.
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One implementation of this strategy is referred to as the lean startup movement, and its methodology has become what many call a science of entrepreneurship.
There's no getting around it: the Victory is a plump, weighty thing, and it doesn't even have a slide-out keyboard to lean on as an excuse.
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And while major publishers struggle with bloated release schedules and rampant costs in a shifting media landscape, NYRB Classics succeeds as a lean model of consistency, quality and reader engagement.
How many more people are we going to drop from the income tax rolls as we lean on a smaller and smaller slice of citizens to carry an ever greater percentage of the load, leaving the rest free to vote for tax increases?
He described BP as "too lean" following rounds of cost-cutting that led up to the disaster.
He saw Lydia embrace one of the men, from the back, lean over him as he sat at the table and put her face beside his.
Today, Barbee is focused on what she describes as a "lean and mean" seven-episode arc, which will begin with the finale's battle before jumping ahead a couple of weeks.
The American Meat Institute, meanwhile, has created www.meatsafety.org to answer questions about BSE and beef safety, as well as facts about lean finely textured beef, which of course, earned the nickname pink slime.
If Mr. Najib loses there is no guarantee that his successor as prime minister will lean toward reform.
As Toyota discovered with lean manufacturing, production-line workers, given the chance, can come up with plenty of good ideas to improve productivity.
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