Lean Enterprise Institute Fact Sheet
July 2012
Lean Enterprise Institute Fact Sheet
Since its founding in 1997, LEI has …
- Sold over 700,000 books and workbooks
- Registered 239,688 Lean Thinkers to its online Lean Community
- Signed-up 121,413 e-newsletter subscribers
- Trained 20,744 people at public workshops
- Sold over 10,000 e-books
- Hosted more than 6,205 attendees at Lean Transformation Summit Conferences, including the first lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
- Developed a free smart phone app and most recently the A3 Creator app for drawing A3 reports on tablet computers
- Changed the language of management as “lean,” “lean thinking,” “A3 management,” and “value-stream mapping” entered the business vernacular
- Sponsored the founding of three additional nonprofit organizations: the Lean Education Academic Network, the Healthcare Value Network, and the Lean Global Network, which has expand to to 18 affiliates on 6 continents
- Launched 8 moderated online Forums
- Produced 26 webinars on a wide range of lean management topics
- Created a web site with hundreds of pages of resources, including Jim Womack’s e-letters, John Shook’s e-letters, Michael Ballé’s Gemba Coach column, original lean case studies, and presentations
- Shared content and resources with the Lean Community through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media
More Lean Resources