The Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., founded by James P. Womack in 1997, is a nonprofit education, publishing, research and conference organization with an action plan. It carefully develop hypotheses about lean thinking and experiment to see which approaches work best in the real world, then provides new methods for organizational transformation. LEI's mission is to “Make things better, through lean thinking and practice.” It carries out its mission through value streams: lean education, lean learning materials, co-learning partnerships, the lean summit conferences, and its website lean.org. In addition, it exchanges information across the world through the lean global network, consisting of more than a dozen nonprofit organizations similar to LEI, sharing a common mission in different countries.
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