Press Releases
December 18, 2019
SBP Founders’ Book “Getting Home” Released in Audio, Print and E-versions
Getting Home is the inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes for desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina but wound up reconstructing the entire process for rebuilding after disasters. Authors Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg describe how SBP, the New Orleans-based disaster resilience and recovery nonprofit they founded in 2006, partnered with Toyota to apply the lean principles of the Toyota Production System to rebuild homes and lives following natural disasters throughout the U.S, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.
Read moreNovember 18, 2019
Author of Continuous Improvement Book “Four Types of Problems” Must Solve a Vexing Problem Before Keynoting a Major Business Conference
Lean Enterprise Institute author Art Smalley tells the crowd at the Northeast Lean Conference how he ironically had to solve a “Type 1” problem with a broken hotel toilet before his plenary presentation on problem solving.
Read moreSeptember 23, 2019
Product Development Exec: Great Products and Services Aren’t an Engineering Thing, They’re an Enterprise Thing
In his keynote at the annual Iowa #Lean Consortium Conference on October 30, 2019, product development executive and Lean Enterprise Institute author James Morgan will explain how lean product and process development marshals the total capabilities of companies to consistently create and deliver exceptional products and services, the Institute announced today.
Read moreJuly 19, 2019
Innovators Explore How to Leverage Product Development for Enterprise Change
The theme of the recent 2019 Designing the Future Summit was how to use lean product and process development for widespread organizational change. The third annual summit is set for June 17-18, 2020.
Read moreJune 4, 2019
Lean Enterprise Institute Names Joshua Howell President and Executive Team Leader
Josh Howell is an experienced manager and lean management coach who is adept at designing and implementing enterprise level lean operating systems or facilitating work improvement at the employee level.
Read moreMay 8, 2019
Lean Enterprise Institute Executive Chair Jean Cunningham Inducted into the Shingo Academy
Cunningham was inducted during a ceremony at the Shingo Institute’s annual conference on April 30, 2019, in Cincinnati. The Institute is part of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
Read moreApril 10, 2019
Join the Product Development Revolution That’s Changing the Way New Value Is Created at the Second Annual #Lean Product And Process Development Conference
The Designing the Future Summit, set for June 27- 28, 2019, will examine concrete continuous improvement practices for product design and development, not broad generalizations “to be innovative.”
Read moreMarch 8, 2019
Lean Enterprise Institute Names Jean Cunningham as Its New Executive Chairman
The award-winning author and former CFO at two manufacturing companies is widely recognized for pioneering the application of lean management principles beyond manufacturing to accounting, IT, human resources, and other business functions.
Read moreFebruary 11, 2019
Alan Mulally on High-Profile Corporate Turnarounds, Navigating Turbulent Times – and Mowing Lawns
In a rare and revealing interview, the leadership icon and former CEO at Ford and Boeing talks with former Ford executive and LEI senior advisor Jim Morgan about his powerful management system – and what he learned about innovation mowing lawns as a kid.
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