The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a nonprofit education, publishing, conferencing, and management research organization founded in 1997 by lean management expert, James P. Womack, Ph.D. LEI's mission is to promote the principles of lean thinking in every aspect of business and across a wide range of manufacturing and service industries to help organizations transform themselves into lean enterprises. LEI workbooks and workshops teach lean methods and principles while our management books, workshops, and seminars assist leaders in developing the behaviors necessary to create and sustain lean enterprises. LEI Summits highlights organizations in the process of making lean breakthroughs.
LEI is also one of the founding members of the Lean Global Network, which is comprised of nonprofit affiliate organizations from around the globle.
Foreword by John Shook
Introduction : Changing Your Focal Plane
Part 1 : Getting Started
Part 2 : The Current-State Map
Part 3 : What Makes an Extended Value Stream Lean?
Part 4 : Future State 1
Part 5 : Future State 2
Part 6 : The Ideal State
Part 7 : Achieving Future States
Conclusion
About the Authors
Appendix A : Value-Stream Mapping Icons
Appendix B : Facility-Level Current-State Maps
Appendix C : Facility-Level Future-State Maps
