This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019. The conference topics include the following: lean trainings in university and industry collaborations; lean product and process development; lean and people empowerment; emerging contexts for lean applications; measuring lean performance; lean, green and circular; continuous improvement initiatives; lean thinking in practice; organizational culture in lean journeys; and innovative training approaches to teaching lean management. The contributions explore the latest academic and industrial findings on and advances in lean education, and identify innovative methods that allow lean thinking benefits to be achieved in practice. As such, the book presents the outcomes of a fruitful exchange between academia and industry designed to help train the next generation of lean educators.

A Brazilian Heart is a book of poetry that transports the reader to a different time and place, where love, passion, and romance reign. Bianca Rossini s poems are very delicate, to be read and enjoyed while lying on a satin bed, alone or with company they give you the inspiration to live and also to be reborn. Bianca s poems are the celebration of the kiss, the touch of a hand, the eye-to-eye contact. She has the gift to transform words into pure music, cradling us in the center of her verses and making us dream of beauties covered with diamonds, to dance with memories we never had. In this tense chaotic world Bianca Rossini reaffirms faith in happiness, in the need of love, the most precious jewel of all creation. And this treasure is here, now, within reach. All that is required is that you dare extend your hand. MANO MELO, Viagens e amores de Scaramouche Araujo Bianca s brilliance and compassion leap beautifully from every page. Michael Eric Dyson, Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins Exotic, passionate and thoughtful. Syd Field, Screenplay Deep, vulnerable and sensual journey. Steve Crosby, Vice President, Vulcan Inc. Pulse of Brazil and the aroma of love. Paul Mazursky, Show Me the Magic Navigate the heart s dance through the vast, yet intimate realm of the innermost. Robert Zuckerman, Kindsight Sensual, like love songs with a Brazilian beat. Sharon Boorstin, Cookin for Love Roadmaps of the soul treasure-maps of the heart. Chico Anysio, actor, author Touch, astonish and travel straight to the heart. Hanspeter Reimann, composer Spokesperson of our suppressed emotions. Chris Linnares, Divas no Diva

This book identifies and analyzes the various ways in which office automation will have an impact on the future of clerical employment in the banking and insurance industries over the period 1985-2000. By focusing on how office automation could affect both aggregate levels of clerical employment and the nature of clerical tasks, the book offers readers a rich and detailed basis for their thinking and action concerning office automation. It also presents a newly developed forecasting method that can be used by analysts and researchers to investigate in detail the potential effects that rapidly changing technologies could have on work and workers.