Beyond Toyota
Jim Womack, Founder and Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, urges us to look beyond Toyota and create management systems and organizations that can practice (not just preach) Lean every day, year after year. He exhorts Lean advocates to work at creating sustainable Lean Enterprises in every industry, in every country. Read this, the first of two Articles, on the next challenge for Lean practitioners.
James Womack
Management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit training, publishing, conferencing, and management research organization chartered in August, 1997, to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the Toyota Production System.
Latest posts by James Womack (see all)
- Back to Work - June 1, 2010
- Beyond Toyota - May 4, 2010
- General Motors—What’s Next? - July 7, 2009
- From Staffs Conducting Programs to Line Managers Solving Problems - November 4, 2008
- Respect for People - February 4, 2008
