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Workshops on Lean, Best Practices from Lean Enterprise Institute
January 18, 2010 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
CAMBRIDGE, MA — A comprehensive lineup of workshops from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will show executives and managers how to apply lean business concepts to improve supply chain, logistics, service and administrative processes, as well as practice the new lean leadership behaviors needed to sustain the improvements. In addition, the workshop "Leading the High Velocity Organization" by Steven Spear, a senior lecturer at MIT and author of Chasing the Rabbit, will help executives and managers adopt the best practices of today’s most competitive companies.
The workshops are:January 27-29: Transformational Leadership: A Program for Senior Leaders
February 10: Optimizing Flow in Office and Service Processes
February 24: Leading the High Velocity Organization: How to Outrace Rivals in Quality, Cost, and Time to Market
March 10-11: Supporting Leader Standard Work with Visual Management Tools
March 23-24: Building the Lean Fulfillment Stream: Supply Chain and Logistics Management
Check the Education page on the LEI Website at http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopCalendar.cfm for workshop times. Price includes tuition, training materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks. For information about registration, discounts or to bring a workshop to your site, contact LEI at (617) 871-2900; registrar@lean.org; http://www.lean.org.
The terms lean manufacturing, lean production, or lean management refer to a complete business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, customer relations, and the overall enterprise that requires less capital, material, space, time, or human effort to produce products and services with fewer defects to precise customer desires, compared with traditional modern management. Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc. is a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company with a mission to advance lean thinking around the world.