Lean Enterprise Institute

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Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Lean Enterprise Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education, publication, conferencing, and research center founded in 1997 by James P. Womack, Ph.D. LEI helps organizations transform themselves into lean enterprises. Its workshops and workbooks teach lean tools like value-stream mapping, lean logistics, and pull systems. Its management seminars and books help managers develop the leadership behaviors that sustain lean enterprises. Its conferences showcase firms making lean breakthroughs. And its Lean Enterprise Partners research program with a small number of enterprises tests new approaches to lean management.

Website: http://www.lean.org/

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