Professor Daniel Jones
Professor Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is a management thought leader and advisor on applying lean, process thinking pioneered by Toyota to every type of business across the world.
He is the founding Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy www.leanuk.org in the UK, dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean thinking and helping others with its implementation. His work has inspired the very successful implementation of lean by Tesco and many other companies.
3 Shingo Awards for LEA
The Lean Enterprise Academy has just won three Shingo Awards in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing lean thinking.
At the Shingo Prize Awards Conference in Salt Lake City, USA on 20 May 2010 Daniel Jones was inducted into the Shingo Academy. The Shingo Academy consists of individuals who have distinguished themselves through their lifetime commitment and achievements in the area of Lean/Operational Excellence. Danielhas previously won four Shingo Awards for his books on lean.
Daniel Jones’s latest e-Letters
Every month Daniel publishes an e-Letter on current lean topics. To subscribe to Dan's e-Letters please go to the Lean Community sign-up page.
Lean and Operational Management
It is a mistake to think of lean as just one of the many tools in the Operational Excellence portfolio. Operational Excellence is really a catch all label for many different “best practices” ...
19 Sep 2011
How to Judge the Success of Lean?
Lean is a journey and to my mind the best way of judging success is by how much people have learnt so far and how ready they are to take the next leg of the journey. ...20 Jun 2011
Managing Visually
Learning to See is the starting point for Learning to Act.
By making the facts of any situation clearly visible it is much easier to build agreement on what needs to be done ...
20 Apr 2011
Daniel Jones’s latest blogs
Who struggles most with lean?
The Lean Edge: What are the most difficult industries and activities to introduce lean to and why?
In your experience, where have you found lean most difficult to introduce? What specific barriers have you come across? How have you overcome them?
27 Jun 2011
Lean problem solving and teamwork
What does “teamwork” mean in lean?
Lean focuses on individual problem solving yet stresses the importance of teamwork. What would be your definition of teamwork in the lean sense?
26 May 2011
Lean Saves Capital
What is the lean approach to capital expenditure?
As Toyota announces a new plant in high-cost Japan, it also claims that the overall investment is 40% lower than an existing equivalent size plant. How is this possible? What is the impact of lean on the investment cycle?
28 Mar 2011
Books by Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is the author, with James P Womack, of the influential, best-selling management books - The Machine that Changed the World, and Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Organisation - which describe the principles and practice of lean thinking in production.
Their latest book Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers can Create Value and Wealth Together extends these ideas to consumption, provision and service delivery.
Research
The progress of lean across sectors
Our Lean Action Research goes beyond traditional consulting in its intent, its execution and in the reflections on its results. We work with organisations of various types at different stages of their lean journey ...
In-house workshops and training
Our workshops are best done in-house addressing a real problem so participants go through the experience of putting lean thinking into practice for themselves.
Recent Action research projects
Mentoring and independent advice
We often get asked by senior managers to take an independent look at a particular situation or a lean transformation.
Designing lean transformations
Recently we have been asked to help design and support lean transformations in several organisations
Developing new business models
One of the most significant results of lean is that it opens up new business models or new ways of delivering value to customers that was previously impossible or too expensive
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.
The digest is presented by the International Commerce Institute of ECR Europe. It contains a selection of summaries of breakthrough articles that have previously been published in the International Commerce Review: ECR Journal.
Since the year 2000, the ‘Review’ has attempted to bring insight and spawn the creation of New Knowledge amongst thought leaders in both academia and the business community around the world. The Review’s Editorial Board is a roll-call of the most admired supply chain, marketing and retail academics today. They, along with executive contributors from leading companies, use the Review as a medium through which to bring you the best of their research and thought leadership.
The selection of articles in this booklet attempts to give a balanced overview of potential solutions to challenges facing our businesses today. The editors realize that the – very condensed – summaries don’t do full justice to the original articles and their authors. We therefore take the liberty to suggest the interested reader to download full articles from the website of the International Commerce Institute.
What is Lean?
Lean Thinking helps organisations do more with less:
Advisor
How Lean is your Organisation?
- Walks and Talks – assessing your problems and next steps
- Advice on lean Transformations
- Review of Lean Plans and Projects
- Convincing colleagues – talks to Executive meetings and conferences
- How can Lean help to do new things?