Tools and techniques taken from the Lean/Six Sigma discipline that can be applied over time to smaller or less critical issues (sometimes referred to as "bottom-up" projects). Extra steps taken by ...

Dunlop, J. T., J. H. Hammond, F A Abernathy, and D. Weil. A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing -- Lessons from the Textile and ...