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The Lean Global Network consists of a growing number of nonprofit or nongovernmental organizations throughout the world devoted to the promotion of lean thinking and the development of lean leaders.

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Lean Enterprise Institute

We publish books, workbooks, and case studies, run workshops and conferences, and conduct research that help companies transform themselves into lean enterprises, based on the principles of the Toyota Business System. We also help managers and executives develop the leadership behaviors that sustain lean enterprises.

Country: United States
Language(s): English

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Phone: +1 617 871 2900
Mailing Address: Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.
One Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States of America

Website: http://www.lean.org/
Store: http://www.lean.org/Bookstore/
Education: http://www.lean.org/Workshops/

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John Shook, Senior Advisor

A senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, John Shook is recognized as a true sensei who enthusiastically shares his knowledge and insights within the Lean Community and with those who have not yet made the lean leap.

Shook learned about lean management while working for Toyota for nearly 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and subsequently to other operations around the world. While at Toyota’s headquarters, he became the company’s first American kacho (manager) in Japan. In the U.S., Shook joined Toyota’s North American engineering, research and development center in Ann Arbor, MI, as general manager of administration and planning. His last position with Toyota was as senior American manager with the Toyota Supplier Support Center in Lexington, KY, assisting North American companies implement the Toyota Production System. As co-author of Learning to See John helped introduce the world to value-stream mapping. John also co-authored Kaizen Express, a bi-lingual manual of the essential concepts and tools of the Toyota Production System. In his latest book Managing to Learn, he describes the A3 management process at the heart of lean management and leadership.

Shook is an industrial anthropologist with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii, and is a graduate of the Japan-America Institute of Management Science. He is the former director of the University of Michigan, Japan Technological Management Program, and faculty of the university’s Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. Shook also helps companies learn lean management through the Lean Transformations Group, LLC, and the TWI Network, Inc.

Events hosted by Lean Enterprise Institute

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Upcoming · March 7, 2012 – March 8, 2012

2012 Lean Transformation Summitt ›

Learn how to focus and accelerate your lean efforts using collaborative learning.

The names are different – consortium, network, partnership. But lean learning-based groups all apply the same powerful strategy of collaborative learning to help members obtain and sustain better business results from their lean transformations.

This year, LEI’s annual Lean Transformation Summit will show you how to borrow the learning curve of Lean Thinkers who are sharing resources and experiences through collaborative learning groups.

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Past · June 8, 2011 – June 9, 2011

2nd Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit ›

At the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, you will learn directly from pioneering healthcare executives and leaders from the Healthcare Value Leaders Network who have had remarkable successes using lean thinking, to improve value to the patient. These leaders will share their knowledge about how to move from isolated islands of kaizen and the random application of tools, to a sustainable lean healthcare model, connecting the entire system of care.

Come spend two intense days in an intimate setting, learning from thought provoking keynotes, a topical panel discussion, interactive learning sessions and the industry’s very best networking. There’s no better opportunity to forge new relationships, hear actionable, no-nonsense advice from pioneers in the Healthcare Value Leaders Network and gain new perspectives no matter where you are in your lean journey.

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Past · March 9, 2011 – March 10, 2011

Lean Transformation Summit ›

This year’s Lean Transformation Summit explores lean practice from two angles.

From a Fundamental perspective, you’ll see how both large and small companies in a variety of industries launched and sustained lean transformations. The same companies also will reveal New Frontiers of lean thinking where they are developing new practices and creating new knowledge. You’ll learn from:

Ford Motor Co, the company that invented flow production, is taking lean to product development and engineering.
Coca Cola, the iconic worldwide brand, is applying lean thinking to the distribution channel.
Acme Alliance, a small young company in a traditional manufacturing industry, is applying lean concepts to its extended enterprise even while working internally on lean fundamentals.
Starbucks, a young company that already is redefining itself, is applying fundamental lean principles in new ways to core front-line, value-creating work.
The unique design of the Summit provides you with relevant, real-world learning - in-depth and in a variety of ways.

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Past · June 9, 2010 – June 10, 2010

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit ›

An joint event hosted by the Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value specially designed to deliver comprehensive, high-quality information about fundamentally improving healthcare delivery through lean thinking.

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Past · March 3, 2010 – March 4, 2010

Lean Transformation Summit 2010 ›

LEI’s 2010 Transformation Summit will take place March 3-4, 2010, with Pre-Summit workshops on March 1-2, in sunny Orlando, Florida, at the Omni ChampionsGate. For further information, or to sign up to be notified when registration opens, please go to: this link.

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