Flow Partners is a Canadian management consultancy supporting the mining industry. We specialize in delivering innovative performance improvement programs. Flow privileges a balanced approach to nurture a culture of operational excellence: a clear focus on developing people, improving the production system from mine-to-market, while leveraging technology appropriately to deliver sustainable results. Lean Thinking for Mining: Lean Mining® - or the application of Lean Thinking to mining – offers an alternate path forward toward continuous, sustainable improvement by focusing on the development of critical thinking capabilities and problem- solving skills of people throughout the company. Lean addresses a given problem by identifying value as specified by the customer and making non-value added activities (or waste) visible so they can be reduced or eliminated. Making value flow is a deliberate and systemic process which requires the involvement of the entire organization, aligned and moving in one direction toward a common goal. This can only be achieved if a sense of greater purpose is clearly communicated and demonstrated by consistent action, so that it may be felt by the people as genuine and worth pursuing.