1、 Copyright 2021 Lean Enterprise Institute.All rights reserved.Copyright 2021 Lean Enterprise Institute.All rights reserved.Lean Enterprise Institute and the leaper image are registered trademarks of Lean Enterprise Institute,Inc.Lean Thinking:Past,Present&FutureJim WomackFounder&Senior AdvisorLean E
2、nterprise Institute,USALEA,Liverpool,April 23,2024 Copyright 2021 Lean Enterprise Institute.All rights reserved.Who Am I?Founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute in the USA 1997Co-Founder of the Lean Global Network 1998Long-time co-author and thought leader with Dan Jones.Thinking about lean thinkin
3、g since 1979 when Dan and I joined forces at MIT and eventually produced The Machine That Changed the World,Lean Thinking et al.Always most comfortable taking the long view,so heres what I see as the oldest person here looking backwards and forwards at the trajectory of lean thinking.Copyright 2021
4、Lean Enterprise Institute.All rights reserved.What Do I Mean by Lean?Both a way of thinking and a practice(with tools,principles,and beliefs),informed by endless experiments to.Create more and more accurately specified value for customers while.Reducing the resources needed(time,effort,capex,etc.)by
5、Enabling good and satisfying work by front-line value creators(to do the work,problem solve,and improve the work)byCreating good and satisfying work for line managers,who enable good and satisfying work for front-line value creators.Copyright 2021 Lean Enterprise Institute.All rights reserved.How Do
6、 We Do This?Progressively create lean enterprises:Stable platforms for value creation running from raw materials/ideas to customers,engaging suppliers,employees,consumers,and investors,for life.With muda/mura/muri-free,leveled(through heijunka)processes for product and process development and fulfil