IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lean Manufacturing and Lean Service Workshops Set for Los Angeles Cambridge, MA, Jan.

4, 2012 - The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run 11 workshops in the Los Angeles area Feb. 7-9 to help companies implement lean business systems and create the cultural changes needed to sustain them. Thus, the curriculum focuses on the technical and social aspects of lean manufacturing and lean service transformations. Workshops will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Marriott Marina Del Rey, 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA. The schedule is: Feb. 7, 2012 -Change Agent Skills for Lean Implementation Leaders (2 days) -Key Concepts of Lean (2 days) -Lean IT -Standardized Work: The Foundation for Kaizen -Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service Feb. 8 -Integrating Visual Management Tools and Leader Standard Work (2 days) -Managing Value-Stream Improvement (2 days) -Optimizing Flow in Office and Service Processes Feb. 9 -Developing People with Capability for Lean -Kaizen: The Culture of Continuous Improvement -Lean Problem Solving Lean Workshop Prices and Discounts One-day workshops are $800. Two-day workshops are $1,600. Price includes tuition, training materials, breakfast, lunch, and snacks. For complete details about content, instructors, discounts, and to register, go to http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopCalendar.cfm, call 617- 8712900, or email registrar@lean.org . Lean Training On-Site Call 617- 871-2900 for information about bringing a workshop to your site.

Lean Community Resources Join LEIs community of Lean Thinkers at http://www.lean.org/WhoWeAre/why_join.cfm to receive a weekly newsletter with lean management resources and news. Youll get access to lean case studies, webinars, interviews with executives on lean leadership, and archives of essays by authors and thought leaders John Shook, LEI CEO, and Jim Womack, LEI founder. 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, or 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. Visit LEI at http://www.lean.org for more information. Media: Chet Marchwinski, cmarchwinski@lean.org, (617) 871-2930