IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lean Training Workshops Offered by Cambridge Nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute

Eight lean management workshops from July to September 2010 at the Lean Enterprise Institute
will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and
nonmanufacturing processes.

Cambridge, Mass., June 28, 2010 – A comprehensive summer series of lean training workshops
offered by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will help executives and managers
launch and sustain lean management transformations in a variety of business environments and
functions.

The series of eight workshops running from July through September will help business leaders
improve supply chains, logistics, accounting processes, and manufacturing job shops, as well as
practice the new lean leadership behaviors that they need to sustain improvements.

The workshops will be held at the Lean Enterprise Institute’s office at One Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA.

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
registrar@lean.org . The schedule is:

Transformational Leadership: An Experiential Program for Lean Leaders, July 14-16:

Learn how to create an environment for effective problem-solving at all levels of the
organization and to model leadership behaviors that support such an environment.

Made to Order Lean: Improving Production in a High Mix/Low Volume Environment, August 3,
and Made to Order Lean: Managing in High Mix/Low Volume Environment, August 4: These
two workshops will show you how to adapt lean principles, tools, and techniques to a high-
mix/low-volume environment, and apply lean management in made-to-order companies.

Developing People with Capability for Lean, Aug.17: Learn the manager’s role in people
development and the lean leader's responsibilities in creating a learning environment.

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Coaching Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders, Aug.18: Understand what it means to be a
coach and why coaching skills are critical for lean managers.

Building the Lean Fulfillment Stream: Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Aug. 19: Based
on LEI's recent book Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream by Robert Martichenko and Kevin von
Grabe, this workshop highlights the critical elements and “must know” concepts of lean supply
chains and logistics.

The Missing Link: Lean Thinking for Executives, Sept. 28: The program will address the roles,
responsibilities, and competencies of senior leaders supporting a lean transformation.

Management Accounting for Lean Businesses, Sept. 30: This workshop gives you the logic,
principles, and proven methodology to create a lean accounting system that accurately reflects
the benefits of the lean transformation.

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Lean Community Resources

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What is Lean?
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, and
human effort to produce products and services with fewer defects to precise customer desires,
compared with traditional modern management.

Lean Enterprise Institute

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. We teach courses, hold management seminars, write
and publish books and workbooks, and organize public and private conferences. We use the
surplus revenues from these activities to conduct research projects and support other lean
initiatives such as the Lean Education Academic Network, the Lean Global Network and the
Healthcare Value Leaders Network. Visit LEI at http://www.lean.org for more information.

Media: Chet Marchwinski, cmarchwinski@lean.org, (617) 871-2930

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