CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 4, 2012 — The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run 11 workshops in the Los Angeles area Feb. 7-9 to help companies implement lean business systems and create the cultural changes needed to sustain them. Thus, the curriculum focuses on the technical and social aspects of lean manufacturing and lean service transformations.
Workshops will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Marriott Marina Del Rey, 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA. The schedule is:
Feb. 7, 2012
-Change Agent Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders
(2 days)
-Key Concepts of Lean (2 days)
-Lean IT
-Standardized
Work: The Foundation for Kaizen
-Value-Stream Mapping for the
Office and Service
Feb. 8
-Integrating Visual Management Tools and Leader Standard
Work (2 days)
-Managing Value-Stream Improvement (2 days)
-Optimizing
Flow in Office and Service Processes
Feb. 9
-Developing People with Capability for Lean
-Kaizen:
The Culture of Continuous Improvement
-Lean Problem Solving
Lean Workshop Prices and Discounts
One-day workshops are $800. Two-day workshops are $1,600. Price includes tuition, training materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks. For complete details about content, instructors, discounts, and to register, go to http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopCalendar.cfm, call 617- 871-2900, or email Email Contact .
Lean Training On-Site
Call 617- 871-2900 for information about bringing a workshop to your site.
Lean Community Resources
Join LEI’s community of Lean Thinkers at http://www.lean.org/WhoWeAre/why_join.cfm to receive a weekly newsletter with lean management resources and news. You’ll get access to lean case studies, webinars, interviews with executives on lean leadership, and archives of essays by authors and thought leaders John Shook, LEI CEO, and Jim Womack, LEI founder.
http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/
The
terms lean manufacturing, lean production, or lean
management refer to a complete business system for organizing and
managing product development, operations, suppliers, customer relations,
and the overall enterprise that requires less capital, material, space,
time, or human effort to produce products and services with fewer
defects to precise customer desires, compared with traditional modern
management..
Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., was founded in 1997 by management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., as a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company with a mission to advance lean thinking around the world. Visit LEI at http://www.lean.org for more information.
Contact:
Media:
Lean Enterprise Institute
Chet Marchwinski, 617-871-2930
Email Contact
