Site Map
Over the last few years we have added hundreds of new articles, publications, e-letters, events and presentations. To help you find the information you are looking for we have added a “word cloud” to enable navigation directly to the most often viewed pages.
Our home page now provides latest lean news and short introductions to new content on the site - click the large THE LEAN ENTERPRISE ACADEMY logo (top left) to return to the home page from any screen.
We have also introduced two new websites:
- Lean Healthcare containing information related to our Healthcare projects
- Daniel Jones with all of Daniel’s e-Letters, articles, publications and public speaking engagements
We hope you find this useful and would welcome any feedback - good and bad - to help us to continually improve how we help you on your lean journey.
Action Research and Training
Our Action research and Training pages provide information about The Lean Enterprise Academy’s core activities.
This leads on to regular public workshops available at LEA:
- A3 Thinking : Managing to Learn
- Breaking Through To Flow
- Creating Basic Stability
- Policy Deployment : Getting The Right Things Done
- Making Hospitals Work (on our Healthcare Website)
- Managing A Lean Transformation
- Mapping Your Value Streams : Learning To See
- Analysing Supply Chains : Seeing The Whole
Downloads
Our download pages provide links to hundreds of e-Letters, articles and presentations covering all aspects of Lean.
- Daniel Jones e-Letters (now on Daniel Jones Website)
- Jim Womack e-Letters
- Downloads (Links to e-letters, articles and presentations)
- e-Letters and Articles (by Level of Lean)
- e-Letters and Articles (by Topic)
- Videos and Podcasts
Events
Our Events web page provides information about forthcoming events and presentations from previous events.
Our Next Summit
Previous Summits
Our summit pages have links to speaker slide presentations, plus audio and video for recent summits
- Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit - July 2009
- Lean Transformation Summit - November 2008
- 1st Global Healthcare Summit - June 2007
- Frontiers of Lean Summit - November 2005
- Lean Service Summit - June 2004
Previous Forums
- 4th Healthcare Forum - October 2007
- 1st Global Healthcare Summit - 2007
- Lean Supply Chain Forum - June 2007
- 3rd Healthcare Forum - October 2006
- 2nd Healthcare Forum - June 2006
- 1st Healthcare Forum - January 2006
- Frontiers of Lean Summit - November 2005
- Lean Service Summit - June 2004
Book Store
Our Lean Bookstore contains books, workbooks, kits (collections of themed books at discounted prices), training tools, audio CDs, DVDs and software.
- On-line store
- Order Form (PDF)
Publications
- A3 problem Solving
- The Birth of Lean
- Breaking Through To Flow
- Lean Fulfilment
- Creating Continuous Flow
- Creating Lean Dealers
- Creating level Pull
- Creating Mixed Value Stream
- Follow The Learner
- Getting The Right Things Done
- The Gold Mine
- Hoshin Kanri
- Inside the Mind of Toyota
- Kaizen Express
- Leaders Study Guide to The Gold Mine
- Lean Administration I
- Lean Administration II
- Lean Healthcare
- Lean Hospitals
- Lean Lexicon
- Lean Maintenance
- Lean Manager
- Lean Product Development
- Lean Solutions
- Lean Thinking
- Learning To See
- Made to Order Lean
- Making Hospitals Work
- Making Materials Flow
- Managing To Learn
- Mapping To See
- Mapping To See Participant Guide
- The Nun and The Bureaucrat
- Seeing The Whole
- Sense and Respond
- The Machine That Changed The World
- Toyota PDS
- Training To See
- Training Within Industry
- TWI Workbook
- Understanding A3 Thinking
- Value Stream Mapping
- Womack on Lean Management (DVD)
General Pages
The footer provides additional links to the following general pages.
Browser Support
The web pages are written to the latest W3C standards and we do not to use features that are not available in all the current browsers. So effectively we are using a subset of the full features of HTML and CSS. This includes the use of colours that are 'safe' on all browsers on all platforms.
We do not down-load cookies or Java applets on to your computer and use minimal client-side Javascript for validation.
The web site is tested with the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer Version 5.0 (or later)
- Netscape Version 6.0 (or later
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W3C Standards - XHTML and CSS
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We have used Cascading style sheets to create the page layouts and visual effects. Tables are used only where appropriate!
Website design by Shed22
Adobe Acrobat and PDF Files
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In line with W3C guidelines PDF files are shown on the same web page so use the Back button (Rather than Close) to return to the previous page.