The five workshops are designed to deliver practical, how-to answers in plain language about basic and more advanced lean management concepts.

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).

Lean concepts for manufacturing, IT, job shops, offices and other environments will be covered by the sessions Oct. 18-20.

The lean management workshop series will help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.

The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.

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.

A unique group of companies, including two that have sustained lean transformations since the mid-1990s, will reveal how they are developing lean longevity at the Lean Transformation Summit conference sponsored by the Lean Enterprise Institute, March

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 Lean Manager, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), shows managers how to go beyond implementing lean production tools to a lean management system.