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).

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

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

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.