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Managing on Purpose
Does your organization struggle to achieve consistent business results? Do you set strategic goals but fail to see them translate…
View productDaily Management to Execute Strategy: Solving problems and developing people every day
Daily Management to Execute Strategy is your essential guide to aligning daily operations with strategic goals. Written by lean management…
View productA3 Getting Started Guide
Although this guide isn’t the end-all-be-all for how to use the A3 process, it includes some of our favorite tools,…
View productThe Power of Process – A Story of Innovative Lean Process Development
True Lean process design goes well beyond forcing concepts and slogans, it is purposeful, scientific, and adaptable because every situation…
View productLEI Hat
Official LEI hat with lean leaper logo on front. Comfortable and sporty navy blue hat with white embroidery.
View productThe Gold Mine (Audio CD)
The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…
View productWelcome Problems, Find Success – Creating Toyota Cultures Around the World
In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc., shares his decades of experience directly…
View productThe Toyota Way of Dantotsu Radical Quality Improvement (Paperback)
In Japanese, "dantotsu" means "extreme," "radical," or "unparalleled." Toyota veteran Sadao Nomura shares the story of the dramatic improvement he and his…
View productThe Gold Mine Trilogy 4 Book Set
Save $40 when you buy this as a set! ($115 total when books are purchased separately).
View productLearning to See / Seeing the Whole Value Stream Set
A special discounted combination package of two important and complementary lean tools, Learning to See and Seeing the Whole Value…
View productLearning to See / Creating Continuous Flow Set
Buy LEI's first two workbooks together and save 15%. Learning to See, a key initial step in a lean conversion, teaches…
View productFour Types of Problems / Managing to Learn Set
The perfect problem solving gift set for all lean thinkers.
View productLEI Workbook Set
Save on learning how to implement lean at the process, plant, and entire value-stream level with these workbooks by the…
View productCreating Continuous Flow / Making Materials Flow Set
Buy the two workbooks on flow together and save 15%. Continuous flow cells need a lean material-handling system to supply…
View productMapping to See: Value-Stream Improvement Workshop
Mapping to See: Value-Stream Improvement for the Office and Services is a complete training solution created by some of the…
View productBecoming the Change
Two renowned healthcare transformation experts provide a blueprint for implementing the principles and behaviors leaders at all levels must embrace…
View productThe Work of Management
Jim Lancaster tells an inspiring and practical business story in his new book, The Work of Management. It’s a close-up,…
View productVSM Getting Started Set
The Getting Started Set is three key LEI products that will quickly allow you to learn about, and get started…
View productValue-Stream Mapping Workshop Participant Guide
We've developed the contents of this Value-Stream Mapping Workshop Participant Guide to enhance learning. The structure of the modules in…
View productValue-Stream Mapping Pad
Generous-sized value stream mapping pads. Each sheet is 11 x 17 inches so you have plenty of room to draw…
View productThe Value Add Accountant
This book expands the Real Numbers message by providing detailed examples of how to reveal accounting waste, start a personal value add…
View productTraining to See Kit: A Value-Stream Mapping Workshop
The Training to See kit enables you to take people through the exercise of value-stream mapping, from selecting a product…
View productSteady Work
Transforming frontline operations in a retail chain the size of Starbucks is a story in itself. This book goes further,…
View productSeeing the Whole Value Stream
For the tens of thousands of users of value-stream mapping at the facility level, Seeing the Whole Value Stream provides…
View productReal Numbers
Companies throughout the world are using lean principles to dramatically change the competitive landscape while generating new profitability and market…
View productPerfecting Patient Journeys
Perfecting Patient Journeys is a guide to value-stream improvement for leaders of healthcare organizations who want to implement lean thinking…
View productOn the Mend
Lean healthcare does not mean less care. On the Mend shows that when care is truly re-designed around patients, waste…
View productMapping to See Workshop Participant Guide
The contents of the Mapping to See Workshop Participant Guide were developed to enhance active learning. The structure of the…
View productManaging to Learn: Using the A3 management process
Managing to Learn by Toyota veteran John Shook, reveals the thinking underlying the A3 management process found at the heart…
View productMaking Materials Flow
Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system by explaining how to supply purchased parts…
View productThe Machine That Changed the World
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors.…
View productLEI SmartSheets
LEI SmartSheets turn any wall or flat surface into a whiteboard that you can take with you! They cling to almost…
View productLearning to See
Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches…
View productLean Thinking, 2nd Edition
Lean Thinking is about case studies from a wide range of industries, to distill out the essential principles of lean…
View productLean Solutions
In Lean Solutions, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it.…
View productThe Lean Sensei
The Lean Sensei provides both a conceptual and hands-on toolkit for developing lean leaders—and becoming one yourself. It will challenge…
View productLean Product and Process Development, 2nd Edition
In the truly groundbreaking first edition of Lean Product and Process Development, Allen Ward showed the way. He delivered—with passion and penetrating…
View productThe Lean Manager
For many companies, the most important problem is not doing lean; it is becoming lean. How can they advance beyond realizing isolated gains from deploying lean…
View productLean Lexicon 5th Edition
The fifth edition of the Lexicon, first published in January 2003, is 140 pages, containing 60+ illustrations and 207 key…
View productThe Lean Dentist
The Lean Dentist tells how a dental group transforms itself from typical batch-and-queue patient treatment to improved and profitable "one-patient…
View productThe Lean Bakery
Food should be fresh. Yet we produce it in big batches. If fast-moving, small batch, one-piece flow can work with…
View productLead With Respect
In their third business novel Lead With Respect, authors Michael and Freddy Ballé reveal the true power of lean: developing people…
View productKaizen Express
Kaizen Express is a concise but precise illustrated guide to the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and how…
View productThe Gold Mine
The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…
View productThe Gold Mine Trilogy Study Guide
A way for teams to improve their lean practice together through reflection on the Ballé novel trilogy: The Gold Mine, The…
View productGetting the Right Things Done
For companies to be competitive, leaders must engage people at all levels in order to focus their energy and enable…
View productGetting Home
Getting Home is the inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes…
View productGemba Walks, 2nd Edition
A collection of engaging, entertaining, and insightful essays by Jim Womack, based on the many gemba walks he has taken…
View productFour Types of Problems
When faced with a problem, many business leaders and teams mechanically reach for a familiar problem-solving methodology. The problem is…
View productEverything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade
Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade is a quick, fun introduction to lean principles. The book…
View productCreating Level Pull
Creating Level Pull shows you how to advance a lean manufacturing transformation from a focus on isolated improvements to improving…
View productCreating Lean Dealers
Car manufacturing has been transformed by Lean over the last 20 years yet car dealerships have remained virtually untouched by…
View productCreating Continuous Flow
This workbook explains in simple, step-by-step terms how to introduce and sustain lean flows of material and information in pacemaker…
View productBuilding a Lean Fulfillment Stream
This workbook explains step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers,…
View productThe Birth of Lean: Conversations with the Founders of TPS
Fascinating interviews with the founders of lean. Learn about the origins of the Toyota Production System from the people responsible…
View productDesigning the Future
Today’s elite companies know that the ability to consistently create successful new products and services is their most powerful competitive…
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