Lean Enterprise Academy

“Welcome to the Lean Enterprise Academy, dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean and to spreading lean to every kind of organization.” Daniel Jones - Founder and Chairman, The Lean Enterprise Academy

Lean and the Web

Customer managing their own data creates new opportunities for Lean

YouTube YouTube Responding to the Empowered Consumer
Alan Mitchell, Mydex

YouTube YouTube Creating Value with Consumers
Daniel Jones, LEA

Report The Consumer Decision-Making Revolution
Alan Mitchell, Mydex and Ctrl-Shift

Lean and IT

Resolving conflicts to create win-win between Lean and IT

YouTube YouTube Building a Lean Infrastructure with IT
Klaus Petersen, Solar Group

Presentations from the 1st Lean European IT Summit YouTube
Paris – October 2011

Lean in Government

Pioneering thinking to spread lean across central government

YouTube YouTube The UK Government’s Performance Improvement Strategy
Kate Silver, Cabinet Office

YouTube YouTube Understanding Government’s Business Problems
Alec Steel & Kevin Summersgill, National Audit Office

Assessing Lean Executives

Assessing Lean Lean adds new perspectives on executive assessment, focusing on Purpose (results), process (means) and people (learning) ... read more

Lean and Operational Excellence

Daniel Jones The scope and depth of lean derived from practise not theory distinguishes it from other improvement methods ... read more

What happened to Toyota?

Toyota Yaris

Read John Shook’s eletter NASA: Toyota “problems not Rocket Science” and Jeff Liker’s new book Toyota under Fire for a thoughtful analysis of the facts. Jim Womack in Beyond Toyota and Daniel Jones in Toyota’s Challenge for the Lean Movement summarise what it means for the rest of us.

What is Lean?

The Lean Thinking book describes the practice of lean. Daniel Jones addresses What is Lean?, The Truth about Lean and How Lean is your Organisation?

John Shook goes Back to Basics and Jim Womack outlines Lean for the Long Term.

What we do

Our objective is to work with pioneering organisations to push forward the frontiers of lean thinking, by helping them to solve new business problems and then by reflecting, distilling and disseminating the learning so others can follow their example.

Our last six months ...

Daniel Jones’ Gemba Walk

Previous Events

LHS 2009 Presentations from previous Lean Summits and Forums are available to download ...

Summits

Solving Business Problems - Lean Summit 2011
New Horizons for Lean Thinking - Lean Summit 2010
Healthcare Transformation Summit 2009
Lean Transformation Summit 2008
1st Global Healthcare Summit 2007
Frontiers of Lean Summit 2005
Lean Service Summit 2004

Forums

International Commerce Review

Daniel Jones has been an editor on the International Commerce Review for several years.

The recently published 10 Years of New Knowledge digest contains a decade of breakthrough articles on business strategy, shopper marketing and supply chain in the Consumer Goods Business.
July 2010

Lean in 10 Sides

Lean in 10 slides Daniel Jones’ talk to the French Lean Summit

Article of the Month

Leadership Lessons in Lean
by Michael Ballé and John Bouthillon

MSJ A really interesting story how the CEO of a construction firm learns from his Sensei - Daniel Jones

Lean Healthcare

Progress at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust – HSJ Best Acute Hospital 2010

YouTube YouTube The COO Perspective – length of stay,
Mark Partington

YouTube YouTube The Visual Hospital Perspective – Managing the demand to get out
Tania King

YouTube YouTube The Doctor’s Perspective – Redesigning the emergency flow, Paul Jarvis

YouTube YouTube Lean at Havard Medical School – Eric Buehrens and Alice Lee, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre.

YouTube YouTube Lean Healthcare in Tuscany - Club Toscana

Closing the Healthcare Performance Gap
Daniel Jones - eLetter

Lean Supply Chains

Redesigning global supply chains to respond in days not months

YouTube YouTube Rethinking the Logic of Location at GKN
Peter Watkins

Seeing the Whole Value Stream
Expanded 2nd Edition

LEI Webinar
Jim Womack and Daniel Jones

So What are you going to do about it?
John Shook - eLetter

Lean Executive Masterclass

Leading Lean from the Executive Office

workshop On 27 June Takashi Tanaka inspired a full house of experienced lean managers to use the Oobeya process at one of our most successful events.

Follow the slides and read the new Discussion Paper on The Visualisation of Purpose given to participants.

workshop

Small Group Coaching Sessions

These workshops are the ideal opportunity to learn how to transform your organisation. Sessions are ideally suited for groups of six to twelve people. We can also run these workshops in your organisation, customised to your needs.

Training and Mentoring

Our modular 6 day Lean Practitioner Course teaches how to solve business problems using lean.

Healthcare Masterclasses

Executive Masterclass

workshop How to improve hospital performance by diagnosing and focusing efforts on the vital few problems.

Making Hospitals Work

2-day train the trainer coaching course.

LEA Publications

Making Hospitals Work
By Marc Baker and Ian Taylor with Alan Mitchell - Now available on Kindle

Making Materials Flow Breaking Through to Flow
By Ian Glenday - Now available on Kindle

Creating Lean Dealers
By Dave Brunt and John Kiff
Available on Kindle soon

Discussion Papers

The Visualization of Purpose
Takashi Tanaka and Sharon Tanner
Lean for Leaders
Takashi Tanaka
The Business Case for Lean
John Darlington & Daniel Jones
The NHS Bermuda Triangle
Marc Baker, Ian Taylor & Daniel Jones - Also see Healthcare Articles

Book Store

Now in Stock

Seeing the Whole Value Stream - An expanded 2nd edition of the workbook Seeing the Whole to be launched shortly by Daniel Jones and Jim Womack with D. Brunt, M. Lovejoy.

In Gemba Walks, Jim Womack shares his insights on topics ranging from the application of specific tools, to the role of management in sustaining lean, as well as the long-term prospects for this fundamental new way of creating value.