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Founder and President of the Lean Enterprise Institute

Dr James P. Womack is the Founder and President of the Lean Enterprise Institute SM, a non-profit educational and research organisation chartered in 1997 to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking. At the Institute James is conducting a series of research activities to create a tool kit for decision makers of methods for implementing lean thinking in a wide range of industries. The Institute also sponsors a series of educational meetings through the year and helps people to apply lean thinking in entirely new applications such as health care, construction, and distribution.

[expand title=”In detail”] Dr. Womack received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1970, a master’s degree in transportation systems from Harvard in 1975, and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1982 (for a dissertation on comparative industrial policy in the U.S., Germany, and Japan). During the period 1975-1991, Dr. Womack was a full-time research scientist at MIT directing a series of comparative studies of world manufacturing practices. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]The intellectual basis for the Institute is described in a series of volumes and articles co-authored by Dr. Womack over the past twenty years. The most widely known of these are The Machine That Changed the World, Lean Thinking, From Lean Production to the Lean Enterprise, Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]James’ presentations are a mechanism for lean practitioners to discuss and solve problems and focus on how to implement lean thinking with the emphasis on change management and getting things done. An experienced speaker James is able to show executives how to sustain growth within their industry and increase the all important bottom line.[/expand]

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Topics

Lean Production and Lean Thinking

Leadership

Profitability

Getting Things Done

Entrepreneurship

Publications

1996
Lean Thinking

1996
Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection

1994
From Lean Production to the Lean Enterprise

1990
The Machine That Changed the World

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