Intro to Lean Thinking & Practice
Location
On Demand Online Course
Why you should attend
This online course serves as an introduction to the key concepts, philosophies, and tools associated with lean thinking and practice.
Cost
$249.00
Lean thinking and practice helps organizations become both innovative and competitive, which in turn allows them to become sustainable.
Lean is about creating the most value for the customer while minimizing resources, time, energy, and effort. A lean approach to work is about understanding what’s really going on at the place where value is created, and improving the processes by which products and services are created and delivered.
This engaging, online, go-at-your-own-pace course is designed to give you an understanding of what lean is, what it might look like in your workplace, and how to start applying it.
Learning Objectives
This course works for people new to the concepts of lean and continuous improvement, for individuals looking to improve their lean understanding and skills, and for organizations wanting to level set the lean knowledge of their workforce to speed progress.
- Recognize where and how to apply lean principles, systems, and concepts, to increase value and eliminate waste in your daily work.
- Resolve business challenges by using scientific method, PDCA-based problem-solving.
- Identify work activities as being “value-add,” “incidental,” or “waste” and understand how all three affect workflow.
- Understand the five dimensions of the Lean Transformation Framework and explain why all five are necessary for a transformation to occur
Time Estimates Per Unit*
*Actual times may vary.

John Shook
Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute
Chairman, Lean Global Network
John Shook learned about lean management while working for Toyota for 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and other operations around the world. While at Toyota’s headquarters, he became the company’s first American kacho (manager) in Japan. In the U.S., Shook joined […]
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