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• The Atlantic Quotes LEI CEO John Shook on Insourcing Trend
  

  A cover story on insourcing quotes John Shook, chairman and CEO of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, and other manufacturing experts.

• Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Joins Summit on “Manufacturing's Next Chapter"
  

  Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook addresses "Manufacturing's Next Chapter," a business summit organized by The Atlantic to bring together experts from business, government, and labor to deliberate the impact on industry of powerful trends in technology, insourcing, workforce development, and global competitiveness.

• Lean Enterprise Institute Fact Sheet
  

  A list of what the Lean Enterprise Institute accomplished from its founding by James Womack in 1997 to its 15th anniversary on August 1, 2012.

• What Is the Lean Enterprise Institute?
  

  A summary of lean managment and the Lean Enterprise Institute's background and mission

• Subaru Made in Japan Defies Trend as Fuji Lifts Output
  

  Bloomberg BusinessWeek talks to Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook and other industry experts on the decision by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. to boost domestic manufacturing while other Japanese automakers are expanding overseas to escape the strong yen. A former Toyota manager, Shook was its first American kacho (manager) at its headquarters in Japan where he helped transfer its lean management system to North America.

• Lean Consumption
  
  "Lean Consumption," the lead article in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review, is “a landmark synthesis of ideas whose implications haven’t been fully understood and a breakthrough to new territory,” according to Editor Tom Stewart. In this letter to the Lean Community, co-author Jim Womack, president and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, outlines the concepts in the article, which previews the book on the same subject that will be printed in the fall of 2005. Get a copy of the HBR Lean Consumption article.
• Example of a current-state map
  A current-state map shows the path of a product or service from order to delivery to determine the current conditions. (Source: Learning to See, Lean Enterprise Institute, 1999.)
• Example of a future-state map
  A future-state map deploys the opportunities for improvement identified in the current-state map to achieve a higher level of performance.(Source: Learning to See, Lean Enterprise Institute, 1999.)
• What Is Lean Thinking?
  Lean Thinking is the title of a landmark book by James Womack and Daniel Jones that explains the set of ideas known as lean thinking or lean production. The book explains the thought process underpinning a complete lean system, gives examples of successful lean transformations, and provides an Action Plan for implementation.
• Capsule Definitions of Key Lean Concepts
  Succinct summaries of some critical lean concepts.
• Billionaire Chung Shows Hyundai Luxury No Joke Chasing BMW: Cars
  

  LEI CEO John Shook comments to Bloomberg Markets on the rise of Hyundai, once known only as the builder of cheap cars.

• Denver Health Becomes Profitable After Using Toyota as a Template
  

  In a story about the lean healthcare success at Denver Health, Governing  cites five lean principles championed by the Lean Enterprise Institute: (1) Identify the value of the product for the customer; (2) Map the process for creating the product and eliminate elements without value; (3) Create a flow for the value-creating steps; (4) Let customers pull value from that flow; and (5) Begin the process again and seek perfection.

• Ohio Grabs Acura From Japan as Yen Fuels Exodus to U.S.: Cars
  

  Bloomberg BusinessWeek quotes John Shook, Lean Enterprise Institute CEO and author, on  Honda Motor Co.’s choice to build what it described as a racing-oriented “supercar” in Ohio.

• Lean leads the way to Manufacturing Hall of Fame
  

  Lean Directions Newsletter notes that "perhaps best known of the three lean inductees" to IndustryWeek's Manufacturing Hall of Fame is John Shook, chairman and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute.

• National Magazine Inducts 10 Manufacturing Leaders Into the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame
  

  Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shoook is named to the 2011 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

• Gemba Walks: Learn lessons from the author who lived the experiences
  

  AME's Target magazine reviews Gemba Walks by Lean Enterprise Institute Founder Jim Womack, calling it "a great reference to help you reflect on perennial issues that lean leaders face every day." (Scroll down the page to the review.)

• Interview: Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook
  

  In an article in the newsletter of Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, LEI CEO and former Toyota Manager John Shook talks about the application of lean concepts beyond manufacturing, common mistakes companies make in implementing lean management, and recent trends in continuous improvement applications. While at Toyota, Shook helped the automaker transfer its management system to the NUMMI joint venture with GM in Fremont, CA.

• AME names five to Hall of Fame
  

  Lean Enterprise Institute Founder James Womack was inducted into the Association for Manufacturing Excellence's Hall of Fame during a ceremony at its annual 2011 conference.

• Lean Enterprise Institute CEO John Shook Wins Sloan Management Review Award for Best Article on Change and Organizational Development
  

  Winning article on culture change lessons from NUMMI should be “required reading” for anyone concerned with corporate culture change, according to SMR.

• Conference on how to keep jobs in U.S.
  

  In an interview with WWLP-TV (Springfield, MA) LEI CEO John Shook notes that the roots of modern lean thinking are traceable to advancements in machining done more than a century ago in Springfield, the site of a conference on how lean protects U.S. jobs. The event, which Shook keynoted, was sponsored by the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership.