In the beginning of December, and almost a year later than planned, Svein Are and I – the UiT improvement team – traveled to London to visit our colleagues at Middlesex University. The trip was part of the Erasmus+ mobility …
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This October we had planned to travel to Glasgow to present at the international Lean in Higher Education Conference. As it came closer, it was obvious that the conference could not be held as a traditional face-to-face event. For our …
THE BUILD UP When we started to learn about lean and continuous improvement at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, we quickly realized we needed a network, a kinship, to support us. We had little knowledge of which universities we …
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When working with people, teams or organizations on change, I have often come across displays of various challenges. Some are easy to read while others are more subtle or even hidden below the surface. Typically, these challenges comes within all …
The Lean in Higher Education (leanHE) conference 2017 has come to end and, and as I sit on the plane from Sydney to Bangkok I’ll take the opportunity to write down some thoughts. Time flies, and it is hard to …
Last week we boarded a plane headed for the UK, with Leeds and Sheffield as our destinations, where we participated in meetings in the Lean HE Europe and Lean HE Global steering groups as well as a community of practice …
I dag (28.03.17) har jeg fått lov til å dele noen tanker om UiT sitt arbeid med lean og forbedringsprosesser med ca 300 deltakere på årets NARMA-konferanse i Lillestrøm. NARMA er et nasjonalt nettverk for forskningsadministrasjon, og ligger under UHR-paraplyen. Utfordringen …
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Thoughts upon arriving home after the LeanHE-conference 2016 in Stirling When I was a youngster I played the drums and timpanis in both a windband and an orchestra, and several times a year I would get to go on a …