“Welcome to the Lean Enterprise Academy, dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean and to spreading lean to every kind of organization.”
Daniel T Jones - Founder and Chairman, The Lean Enterprise Academy
What is Lean?
Lean Thinking is a management system pioneered by Toyota, engaging every employee in streamlining the horizontal processes that create value for consumers ... more ...
- What is Lean ? (PDF Article - 23 Feb 2008)
- What is Lean ? (Video - 29 Nov 2007)
Our Action Research
We work with organisations of various types at different stages of their lean journey ... more ...
- Developing Lean in Healthcare
- Leaning Sales and Service
- Creating Flow in Batch Production
- Creating Lean Supply Chains
- Developing Lean Solutions for the Consumer
- Managing and Sustaining Lean
We are also looking for lean pioneers ... more ...
Downloads
Join the lean community to receive monthly e-letters and alerts about the latest articles and events ... more ...
- Dan's latest e-Letter (10 June 2009)
- Articles and e-Letters (30 June 2009)
- Videos and podcasts (May 2008)
Events
The Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2009 will be held at the QEII in London on 10th July. More events...
Our next public workshops on 4-6th August explain how to really use the core lean books.
The Lean Transformation Summit 2008 presentations are now available.
Book Store
Making Hospitals Work: How to improve patient care while saving staff time and hospital’s resources - available now at our on-line store or by post - Order Form (PDF).
More books...

