12 Lean Management Workshops Set for Atlanta by the Lean Enterprise Institute

Online, October 6, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run a program of 12 lean management workshops in Atlanta, GA, Oct. 18-20, 2011, in one of LEI's biggest and broadest lean learning sessions of the year.

The training event will feature workshops on how to develop lean management systems, cultures, and behaviors. Other workshops will help managers apply lean tools to manufacturing, job shops, services, information technology, and product development.

The workshop schedule is:
Oct. 18
-Key Concepts of Lean
-Lean IT
-Managing to Learn: The Use of the A3 Management Process
-Standardized Work: The Foundation for Kaizen
-Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service

Oct. 19
-Developing People with Capability for Lean
-Improving Production in a High-Mix/Low-Volume Company
-Managing Value-Stream Improvement

Oct. 20
-Coaching Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders
-Management Standard Work
-Managing Made-to-Order Organizations
-Optimizing Flow in Office and Service Processes

Lean Training Pricing and Discounts
Price includes tuition, all training materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks each day. One-day workshops are $800. Two-day workshops are $1,600. Workshops will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Westin Peachtree Plaza.

For complete information about discounts, course content, and registration, go to the Education page at http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopCalendar.cfm , call 617-871-2900, or email [email protected].

What is Lean?
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.

Toyota pioneered lean management as a complete business system after World War II. During the late 1980s, a research team headed by James P. Womack, Ph.D., at MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program coined the term "lean" to describe Toyota's system.

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