Lean

Lean or LEAN may refer to:

In business

• Lean Startup, how to start a company in a lean way
• Lean manufacturing, process improvement discipline
• Lean construction is a translation and adaption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process
• Lean Laboratory, application of lean manufacturing principles in a laboratory
• Lean services, application of lean manufacturing principles in a service operation
• Lean software development, lean manufacturing principles to software development
• Lean Higher Education, application of lean manufacturing principles in Higher Education
• Lean Six Sigma, combination of lean and six sigma approaches.

Other

• Sir David Lean, English film director, producer and editor
• Le'an County, in Jiangxi, China
• Louisiana Environmental Action Network
• Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America
• Lean, also called "purple drank" "sizzurp," or "syrup," a recreational drug based on cough syrup
• Lean meat

See also

• LARGe SCM, Integration of Lean with Agile, Resilience, and Green in Supply Chain Management