Lean concepts for manufacturing, IT, offices and other environments will be covered along with how to create a lean culture of continuous improvement.

Lean management thought leaders and authors Jim Womack and Dan Jones will discuss the new examples and how the extended value-stream mapping methodology impacts the offshoring debate at a free webinar, Nov. 29, 2011, at 2 p.m. (Eastern).

"Online Value-Stream Mapping for Manufacturing," the new web-based training workshop from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, lets participants learn at their own pace, alone or with a team.

James Womack, who led the MIT research team that gave lean production its name, reveals his latest research and thinking about lean management on a new DVD of a seminar and Q & A session with managers and executives.

The Lean Enterprise Institute will run a series of workshops for managers who want to learn how to become leaders capable of creating lean learning organizations February 2-4 in Miami.

Companies that want to emerge stronger from the recession will benefit from a series of January workshops by the Lean Enterprise Institute that will help them extend the waste-elimination benefits of lean thinking from production to other functions.

The first Lean Managers' Conference sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will explain how the work of managers in new lean management systems is fundamentally different than what managers do in older "modern management" systems.