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December 23, 2010

Lean Management Workshops Set for Cambridge

The Lean Enterprise Institute, venue for the lineup of 5 workshops, including two new ones, is within driving distance of most New England executives and managers.

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November 19, 2010

Lean Manufacturing and Service Workshops Set for San Francisco

15 public workshops will cover how to implement lean management concepts in manufacturing, information technology, product development, job shops, warehousing, and distribution processes.

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November 17, 2010

Lean Healthcare Reform Means Reforming Healthcare Management

Healthcare reform by reducing patient errors, improving outcomes, and delivering better quality care at a higher value was the topic of a keynote address by Dr. John Toussaint, co-author of On the Mend

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November 12, 2010

Lean Manufacturing Novel “The Gold Mine” Is Now an Audio Book

In a compelling and instructive story, The Gold Mine addresses what might be the most important lean discipline—the human challenge of creating and sustaining the commitment of the people doing the work.

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October 28, 2010

Lean Accounting Award Recognizes the Work of an Accounting Professor and Graduate Student

Excellence in Lean Accounting awards for 2010 went to Daniel Harris, a doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi, and Associate Professor Rosemary Fullerton, Ph.D., at Utah State University. The award, sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute. recognizes teachers or students who apply in the classroom what they learn at the annual Lean Accounting Summit. The aim of the award program is to bring the principles and practices of lean accounting into higher education.

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October 12, 2010

Lean Supply Chains and Logistics Are Subjects of a Free Webinar

Learn the 8 guiding principles for turning supply "chains" into smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment.

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October 7, 2010

Lean Management Books from the Lean Enterprise Institute Win Two Shingo Research Awards

Follow the Learner and The Lean Manager, which explain the implementation of lean leadership and lean management principles, have won the prestigious award administered by the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University that recognizes new research or understanding of lean principles.

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September 27, 2010

Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that John Shook Is Its New Chairman and CEO, Succeeding Founder James P. Womack

Shook succeeds Founder James Womack as planned.

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August 24, 2010

Lean Enterprise Institute Announces that Founder James P. Womack Will Step Down as CEO and Chairman, Succeeded by Senior Advisor John Shook

LEI Senior Advisor John Y. Shook will succeed Womack as CEO on Sept. 27, 2010, as planned. Womack will remain involved with LEI as a senior advisor and researcher.

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August 23, 2010

Lean Manufacturing and Company Culture Change Workshops in Los Angeles

The workshops include 5S and value-stream mapping along with Sustainable Lean Culture and Kaizen: the Culture of Continuous Improvement, plus many more.

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June 24, 2010

Lean Transformations Require CEO Transformations

A lean healthcare effort put a CEO on a workplace team with positive results.

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June 23, 2010

Helen Zak named President and COO of the Healthcare Value Leaders Network

Long-time LEI COO now heads the nonprofit co-sponsored by LEI and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and focused on improving healthcare delivery with lean thinking.

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June 21, 2010

Second Healthcare Network Created to Spread Lean Principles

The Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value have formed the second Healthcare Value Leaders Network, building on the initial Network that started in June 2009. These Networks are one of the primary means through which LEI and the Center seek to spread lean principles in healthcare.

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June 14, 2010

Lean Learning for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Services

13 lean workshops in Chicago by the Lean Enterprise Institute will cover value-stream mapping, culture change, strategy deployment, and much more.

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New Book, On the Mend, Prescribes Lean Healthcare to Cure U.S. Healthcare Delivery Waste and Errors

On the Mend tells the true story of how ThedaCare, a Wisconsin health system, implemented lean healthcare, a revolutionary new system for delivering more patient benefit in less time and at lower cost.

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May 10, 2010

New Lean Logistics and Supply Chain Workbook Explains How to Increase Value While Reducing Costs

Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, the latest workbook from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, shows how lean thinking converts “supply chains” into swift, smoothly flowing “fulfillment streams” while reducing the total cost of fulfillment

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April 12, 2010

Lean Training Workshops Offered by Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute

Eight lean management workshops from July to September 2010 at the Lean Enterprise Institute will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.

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April 5, 2010

Lean Enterprise Institute Announces 6 Lean Management Workshops for Indianapolis

The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.

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February 22, 2010

Seattle Workshops on Lean Thinking For Healthcare & Administrative Processes

11 public workshops sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute May 11-13 will cover how to implement lean management concepts in healthcare and administrative processes as well as in management accounting and corporate strategy.

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February 1, 2010

Lean Transformation Summit Features a Job Shop’s Long Lean Journey

A unique group of companies, including Lantech, which has sustained a lean transformation since the early 1990s, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.

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Lean Transformation Summit Highlights Lean Efforts at 2 Aerospace Companies

A unique group of organizations, including Goodrich Aerostructures and a FedEx Express aircraft maintenance facility, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.

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Lean Transformation Summit Spotlights Aircraft Maintenance Facility

A unique group of organizations, including the FedEx Express Aircraft Maintenance facility in Los Angeles, will reveal how they are developing “lean for the long term” at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.

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January 25, 2010

Lean Enterprise Institute Releases New “Womack on Lean Management” DVD

James Womack, who led the MIT research team that gave lean production its name, reveals his latest research and thinking about lean management on a new DVD of a seminar and Q & A session with managers and executives.

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San Antonio Lean Management Training Focuses on Manufacturing, Job Shops, Logistics, and Distribution

11 public workshops sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute cover a comprehensive range of lean tools and management methods

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January 13, 2010

Lean Transformation Summit Reveals Keys to “Lean for the Long Term”

A unique group of companies, including two that have sustained lean transformations since the mid-1990s, will reveal how they are developing lean longevity at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.

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January 6, 2010

Lean Enterprise Institute Workshops in Cambridge, MA,Teach New Lean Leadership Behaviors

The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will run a series of six workshops at its office in Cambriddge, MA, in the first quarter of 2010 for managers and executives leading lean management transformations.

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January 4, 2010

Experts Available to Discuss the Benefit of Lean Management to Dramatically Improve Healthcare Delivery

The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value (TCHV) can provide the news media with subject matter experts to discuss how lean concepts apply to healthcare.

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