Self-Reliance Through Lean Thinking & Practice
We help our customers build the capability to solve problems, improve work and sustain performance by aligning purpose, process and people.
Learn: Build the knowledge to apply lean to your situation. Access practical learning processes based on research and real application – so you can use lean thinking and practice in your own organisation.
Teach & Coach: Develop leaders who can build capability in others. We work with leaders to help them teach, coach and develop their teams. Through hands-on learning – onsite and online – you build the capability to improve from within. Our materials and processes are available face to face and online through our Lean Learning Platform.
Share: Learn from others and keep improving. Connect through events, workshops and online content.
Solve Real Problems and Build Lean Capability
Lean is best learned through practice, not theory. Work with us on real challenges in your organisation. Your teams will learn how to solve problems while delivering meaningful results and contributing your story to the wider lean community.
Use Lean Practice and the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF) to develop the best Lean Journey for your situation – starting with the critical question, “What problem(s) are you trying to solve?”. The LTF helps you identify gaps in your current approach, avoid common failure modes, plan and make progress on your lean journey.
Develop Lean Capability at Scale
The purpose of our online Lean Learning Platform is to provide accessible learning materials and processes in lean thinking and practice. Through our Learning Platform, you get access to practical learning materials and structured development pathways that support learning at scale, cost effectively.
The goal is simple: enable your people to lead, learn and improve – minimising external support. In other words, democratising Lean.
Lean Practice: From Research to Real-World Application
Our work is grounded in ongoing research into how organisations learn and apply Lean in practice. In Lean Practice we bring together what we’ve learned from working with organisations to solve real problems and close performance gaps. Through a practical cycle of Questions, Thinking, Action, Lean Practice helps you:
- Apply lean thinking in your own context
- Avoid common failure modes
- Make steady, meaningful progress.
Learn with Others Applying Lean in Practice
We distill the lessons learned from all our activities. Each year we reach out to our Lean community to organise events such our UK Lean Summit, as well as publishing regular web based articles, videos on the Lean Enterprise Academy YouTube channel and sharing via Social Media.
What is Lean?
Lean is about creating the most value for the customer while minimising waste – resources, time, energy and effort. We help organisations with Lean thinking and practice to become both innovative and competitive, which in turn allows them to become more sustainable.
