Lean Management Workshops Opened for Registration at Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute

Online, June 9, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) today opened registration on five workshops addressing the management, culture, and tools of lean business systems. The sessions will run from July through November 2012 at LEI's office, 215 First St., Cambridge, MA.

The workshops, which will help managers and executives launch and sustain lean transformations, are:

- July 10-12, Improvement Kata: Learn how the improvement kata patterns of thought and action help you and your team improve systematically and scientifically every day.

- August 8-10, Transformational Leadership: Learn and practice new lean leadership behaviors through an experiential methodology and a series of business simulations.

- August 22-23, Key Concepts of Lean: Understand how all the key lean tools work together as a fundamentally better business system and the step-by-step thought process for creating it.

- August 28-29, Managing to Learn: The A3 Management Process: Learn how to use A3 reports as critical elements of implementing and sustaining lean management, based on creating a problem-solving culture.

- November 28-30, Transformational Leadership: Learn and practice new lean leadership behaviors through an experiential methodology and a series of business simulations.

Prices range from $800 to $2995 and include participant materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks each day.

On-Site Lean Training
Call (617) 871-2900 and ask about on-site training to bring a workshop to your facility, tailored to your needs.

Lean Community Resources
LEI offers a weekly newsletter with special offers and lean management resources such as case studies, webinars, interviews with executives on lean leadership, and archives of essays by authors and lean management thought leaders John Shook, LEI CEO, and Jim Womack, LEI founder.

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. While the conventional business focus is on optimizing individual processes, lean focuses on optimizing the flow of value to customers across individual processes.