Press Releases
December 23, 2010
Lean Management Workshops Set for Cambridge
The Lean Enterprise Institute, venue for the lineup of 5 workshops, including two new ones, is within driving distance of most New England executives and managers.
Read moreNovember 19, 2010
Lean Manufacturing and Service Workshops Set for San Francisco
15 public workshops will cover how to implement lean management concepts in manufacturing, information technology, product development, job shops, warehousing, and distribution processes.
Read moreNovember 17, 2010
Lean Healthcare Reform Means Reforming Healthcare Management
Healthcare reform by reducing patient errors, improving outcomes, and delivering better quality care at a higher value was the topic of a keynote address by Dr. John Toussaint, co-author of On the Mend
Read moreNovember 12, 2010
Lean Manufacturing Novel “The Gold Mine” Is Now an Audio Book
In a compelling and instructive story, The Gold Mine addresses what might be the most important lean discipline—the human challenge of creating and sustaining the commitment of the people doing the work.
Read moreOctober 28, 2010
Lean Accounting Award Recognizes the Work of an Accounting Professor and Graduate Student
Excellence in Lean Accounting awards for 2010 went to Daniel Harris, a doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi, and Associate Professor Rosemary Fullerton, Ph.D., at Utah State University. The award, sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute. recognizes teachers or students who apply in the classroom what they learn at the annual Lean Accounting Summit. The aim of the award program is to bring the principles and practices of lean accounting into higher education.
Read moreOctober 12, 2010
Lean Supply Chains and Logistics Are Subjects of a Free Webinar
Learn the 8 guiding principles for turning supply "chains" into smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment.
Read moreOctober 7, 2010
Lean Management Books from the Lean Enterprise Institute Win Two Shingo Research Awards
Follow the Learner and The Lean Manager, which explain the implementation of lean leadership and lean management principles, have won the prestigious award administered by the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University that recognizes new research or understanding of lean principles.
Read moreSeptember 27, 2010
Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that John Shook Is Its New Chairman and CEO, Succeeding Founder James P. Womack
Shook succeeds Founder James Womack as planned.
Read moreAugust 24, 2010
Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that Founder James P. Womack Will Step Down as CEO and Chairman, Succeeded by Senior Advisor John Shook
LEI Senior Advisor John Y. Shook will succeed Womack as CEO on Sept. 27, 2010, as planned. Womack will remain involved with LEI as a senior advisor and researcher.
Read moreAugust 23, 2010
Lean Manufacturing and Company Culture Change Workshops in Los Angeles
The workshops include 5S and value-stream mapping along with Sustainable Lean Culture and Kaizen: the Culture of Continuous Improvement, plus many more.
Read moreJune 24, 2010
Lean Transformations Require CEO Transformations
A lean healthcare effort put a CEO on a workplace team with positive results.
Read moreJune 23, 2010
Helen Zak named President and COO of the Healthcare Value Leaders Network
Long-time LEI COO now heads the nonprofit co-sponsored by LEI and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and focused on improving healthcare delivery with lean thinking.
Read moreJune 21, 2010
Second Healthcare Network Created to Spread Lean Principles
The Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value have formed the second Healthcare Value Leaders Network, building on the initial Network that started in June 2009. These Networks are one of the primary means through which LEI and the Center seek to spread lean principles in healthcare.
Read moreJune 14, 2010
Lean Learning for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Services
13 lean workshops in Chicago by the Lean Enterprise Institute will cover value-stream mapping, culture change, strategy deployment, and much more.
Read moreNew Book, On the Mend, Prescribes Lean Healthcare to Cure U.S. Healthcare Delivery Waste and Errors
On the Mend tells the true story of how ThedaCare, a Wisconsin health system, implemented lean healthcare, a revolutionary new system for delivering more patient benefit in less time and at lower cost.
Read moreMay 10, 2010
New Lean Logistics and Supply Chain Workbook Explains How to Increase Value While Reducing Costs
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, the latest workbook from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, shows how lean thinking converts “supply chains” into swift, smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment
Read moreApril 12, 2010
Lean Training Workshops Offered by Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute
Eight lean management workshops from July to September 2010 at the Lean Enterprise Institute will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.
Read moreApril 5, 2010
Lean Enterprise Institute Announces 6 Lean Management Workshops for Indianapolis
The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.
Read moreFebruary 22, 2010
Seattle Workshops on Lean Thinking For Healthcare & Administrative Processes
11 public workshops sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute May 11-13 will cover how to implement lean management concepts in healthcare and administrative processes as well as in management accounting and corporate strategy.
Read moreFebruary 1, 2010
Lean Transformation Summit Features a Job Shop’s Long Lean Journey
A unique group of companies, including Lantech, which has sustained a lean transformation since the early 1990s, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.
Read moreLean Transformation Summit Highlights Lean Efforts at 2 Aerospace Companies
A unique group of organizations, including Goodrich Aerostructures and a FedEx Express aircraft maintenance facility, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.
Read moreLean Transformation Summit Spotlights Aircraft Maintenance Facility
A unique group of organizations, including the FedEx Express Aircraft Maintenance facility in Los Angeles, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.
Read moreJanuary 25, 2010
Lean Enterprise Institute Releases New “Womack on Lean Management” DVD
James Womack, who led the MIT research team that gave lean production its name, reveals his latest research and thinking about lean management on a new DVD of a seminar and Q & A session with managers and executives.
Read moreSan Antonio Lean Management Training Focuses on Manufacturing, Job Shops, Logistics, and Distribution
11 public workshops sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute cover a comprehensive range of lean tools and management methods
Read moreJanuary 13, 2010
Lean Transformation Summit Reveals Keys to “Lean for the Long Term”
A unique group of companies, including two that have sustained lean transformations since the mid-1990s, will reveal how they are developing lean longevity at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.
Read moreJanuary 6, 2010
Lean Enterprise Institute Workshops in Cambridge, MA,Teach New Lean Leadership Behaviors
The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will run a series of six workshops at its office in Cambriddge, MA, in the first quarter of 2010 for managers and executives leading lean management transformations.
Read moreJanuary 4, 2010
Experts Available to Discuss the Benefit of Lean Management to Dramatically Improve Healthcare Delivery
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value (TCHV) can provide the news media with subject matter experts to discuss how lean concepts apply to healthcare.
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