Professor Daniel Jones
Biography
Daniel Jones 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.
More recently he organized the first Global Lean Healthcare Summit, wrote the Lean Thinking for the NHS report and published the Making Hospitals Work guide to using lean to improve hospital performance.
Daniel Jones is the author with James P Womack of the influential, best-selling management books - The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking and Lean Solutions. These books have triggered a worldwide movement of lean practitioners and the establishment of the Lean Global Network of non-profit institutes teaching lean, which have organised over 25 Lean Summits in the USA, UK, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Poland, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, India, China and Australia.
Daniel Jones’s was the European Director of MIT’s Future of the Automobile and International Motor Vehicle Programmes and Professor of Manufacturing Management and founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University Business School. He was a member of the UK Government’s Rethinking Construction, Manufacturing Futures, Automotive Innovation and Growth and Skills for Sustainable Communities task forces. He helped establish the first Company University in the UK at Unipart and the International Car Distribution Programme (ICDP). He is an advisor to the grocery industry’s Efficient Consumer Response (ECR Europe) movement.