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Paul Myerson, author of Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management was the guest on the podcast.

Paul Myerson explains many components of Lean but in a unique way that allows you to apply that knowledge to actual use.

Lean concepts for manufacturing, IT, offices and other environments will be covered along with how to create a lean culture of continuous improvement.

Lean management thought leaders and authors Jim Womack and Dan Jones will discuss the new examples and how the extended value-stream mapping methodology impacts the offshoring debate at a free webinar, Nov. 29, 2011, at 2 p.m. (Eastern).

Ubisense (AIM: UBI), the Cambridge-based company that helps global manufacturers control and monitor processes using location-based solutions, has joined forces with international lean management experts, Iter Consult.

Lean business concepts for manufacturing, IT, job shops, offices and other environments will be covered by the sessions Oct. 18-20.

Training from the Lean Enterprise Institute will help executives and managers launch and sustain lean transformations in a variety of business environments.

The success of a company relies on high quality lean leadership and well-structured programmes.

The researcher who led the team that coined “lean production” explores why lean management is better than the currently dominant management system.

And Rohit Khanna, Chief Operations Officer of GE CAPITAL explains that by providing and structured approach to drive customer satisfaction and bottom-line results by reducing variation and waste is where Six Sigma comes into the picture.

The Process Excellence Network has united a group of top lean professionals in a quest to find out how they stack up against the leanest offices in Europe.

Following the final round of judging on the 17th January 2011 winners and honorary mentions were announced at the Process Excellence Awards ceremony.

Software for Visualizing & Optimizing Product Variants

The goal of Lean is to streamline all activities necessary for the creation of value and eliminate everything else.

ACTLean - The Lean Innovation approach is to create value without waste.

The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes.

Building the Lean Fulfillment Stream: Supply Chain and Logistics Management runs March 23 in Cambridge, MA, and Lean Warehousing and Distribution Operations runs April 6-7 in San Antonio, TX.

“Management Accounting for Lean Businesses” is aimed at finance and operations managers who are running into conflicts between their traditional management accounting systems and the application of lean principles.

James Womack, who led the MIT research team that gave lean production its name, reveals his latest research and thinking about lean management on a new DVD of a seminar and Q & A session with managers and executives.

A unique group of companies, including two that have sustained lean transformations since the mid-1990s, will reveal how they are developing lean longevity at the Lean Transformation Summit, March 3-4, 2010, Orlando.

Companies that want to emerge stronger from the recession will benefit from a series of San Diego workshops Jan. 12-14, 2010, by the Lean Enterprise Institute on how to extend the benefits of lean thinking from production to other functions.

New workshop from the Cambridge, MA-based nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute introduces healthcare professionals to how the methods, tools, and underlying philosophy of lean thinking create measureable improvements in healthcare.

The first Lean Managers’ Conference sponsored by the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will explain how the work of managers in new lean management systems is fundamentally different than what managers do in older “modern management” systems.

The Lean Manager, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), shows managers how to go beyond implementing lean production tools to a lean management system.