Lean Enterprise Institute

Seventeen workshops sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute will help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.

Lean concepts for manufacturing, IT, offices and other environments will be covered along with how to create a lean culture of continuous improvement.

Lean management thought leaders and authors Jim Womack and Dan Jones will discuss the new examples and how the extended value-stream mapping methodology impacts the offshoring debate at a free webinar, Nov. 29, 2011, at 2 p.m. (Eastern).

Lean business concepts for manufacturing, IT, job shops, offices and other environments will be covered by the sessions Oct. 18-20.

Training from the Lean Enterprise Institute will help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.

The researcher who led the team that coined “lean production” explores why lean management is better than the currently dominant management system.

The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.

Building the Lean Fulfillment Stream: Supply Chain and Logistics Management runs March 23 in Cambridge, MA, and Lean Warehousing and Distribution Operations runs April 6-7 in San Antonio, TX.

“Management Accounting for Lean Businesses” is aimed at finance and operations managers who are running into conflicts between their traditional management accounting systems and the application of lean principles.

“Online Value-Stream Mapping for Manufacturing,” the new web-based training workshop from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, lets participants learn at their own pace, alone or with a team.