Thought Leaders in Lean Thinking
Welcome
Welcome to the Lean Enterprise Academy, the source of advanced 'Lean Thinking' in the United Kingdom.
Our mission is to push forward the frontiers of Lean Thinking and its implementation across all sectors of the economy, through conferences, networking, publications and workshops.
Daniel T Jones
Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy
Training
For details of forthcoming speeches and other events please go to our Summits page. Download previous presentations, including Leading The Lean Enterprise (CMI, London, 24-Jan-2008) on our Articles page.
Training and Workshops
We offer the most comprehensive action-learning programme for making the leap from Point Kaizen to Flow and System Kaizen in the UK. The workbooks provide the curriculum for training your lean leaders and are backed up by hands-on workshops, which can also be held on your processes in your organisation.
Applying Lean in Healthcare
The NHS Confederation leading-edge report - Lean Thinking for the NHS is available for download on our Healthcare page (under Articles).
A hard copy of this report is available at £15 - email info@leanuk.org for more information.
In the last two years we have held four Lean Healthcare Forums and, in June 2007, we hosted the First Global Healthcare Summit.
We are moving from interest in applying Lean in Healthcare to the point where many hospitals are now starting to see the benefits ...
For presentations and reports from all Healthcare events and recent healthcare articles please visit our Lean Healthcare pages
Publications
Books, Workbooks, Kits and Tools
A range of books, workbooks, kits, training tools, Audio CD's and software can be found on our Products page.
Latest Publications
Nearly twenty years ago, Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. The Machine That Changed The World has now been re-issued in paperback with a new Foreword and Afterword - at a new low price.
Lean Product and Process Development relays important information and unique insight into Lean product development - by the late Allen Ward, one of the pioneers in the study and practice of Lean product development.
For companies to be competitive, leaders must engage people at all levels in order to focus their energy and enable them to apply lean principles to everything they do. In the latest Lean publication - Getting The Right Things Done (Available December 2006) - Pascal Dennis explores the nuts and bolts of strategy deployment ...
If your organisation's plans keep changing; the accuracy of demand forecasting is an issue; "fire fighting" is a regular occurrence, or your focus of 'lean' is mainly about eliminating waste - then Ian Glenday's Breaking Through To Flow training workbook is for you.
Daniel Jones and Jim Womack's latest book - Lean Solutions establishes the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption. Showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption and perfecting the process of giving consumers what they really want.
See our Products page for all available lean publications ...
Lean Global Network
For a list of members of the Lean Global Network and their programme of events please go to the Lean Global Network page.
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