Lean Global Network

The Lean Management Institute is part of the Lean Global Network (LGN) based in Boston, USA. LGN is a network of 31 non-profit, mission-driven institutions that take responsibility for spreading Lean thinking and action in their country and region.

With approximately 300 Lean experts worldwide, we support organizations in a wide variety of industries and disciplines. Our definition of Lean thinking & doing: Systematic development of people and continuous improvement of processes aimed at creating value and prosperity with the lowest possible consumption of resources.

MISSION “Make things better, through lean thinking and practice.”

We carry out our mission through value streams: Lean Education, Lean Learning Materials, Co-Learning Partnerships, the Lean Summit conferences, and our website lean.org. In addition, we exchange information across the world through the Lean Global Network, consisting of more than a dozen nonprofit organizations similar to LEI, sharing a common mission in different countries.

Any company, executive, manager, team leader, or team member wishing to join the transformation to a lean way of creating value is welcome in our Lean Community. We exist to support everyone who is starting or continuing the lean journey.

Targets
We are mission driven, so our goals are to help others:

  • Provide more fulfilling work and ongoing personal development
  • Enable people to realize and create more value
  • Minimize the use of (scarce) resources and the impact on the environment
  • Improve the performance of organizations
  • Raising the standard of living of society
  • Create value for our customers
  • Strengthen the success of our organizations

Co-learning
We work together for our global customers around the world and develop “fit for purpose” solutions with core teams. For example, we actively participate in the development of completely new products and services, the creation of new production facilities and the development of new markets. Customers appreciate our approach, style of work, having a single point of contact and the fact that we have standard material available in countless languages.

Education
By combining our knowledge and experience and making it accessible, we help our customers with quick access to cutting-edge knowledge and experience. For example, we rapidly develop business games, simulations, workshop material, prototypes and much more (both at the request of our customers and on our own initiative). Our trainings and workshops are highly regarded and lead to interesting results. We collaborate with various universities and colleges in both education and research and development.

Our global approach

Past experience in implementing Lean Management has shown that to ensure sustainable success, it is necessary to take a holistic view of transformation in the area of ​​the 5 elements that make up the Lean Transformation model.

It was developed by Lean Global Network experts and tested in many foreign companies. It presupposes a situational approach: it is adapted to the specificity of the organization and at the same time includes five important elements of the company’s transformation:

  • Set the goal of making a change (improvement, transformation)
    How to set a goal, regardless of whether the planned change affects the entire organization or a single process or area? What problem do we want to solve? What is the deficit in the results achieved?
  • Process improvement
    What specific practical actions need to be taken and for which processes? What Lean methods / tools should be used in the organization? What technical problems arise and how will we address them?
  • Employee potential development
    What skills and abilities were identified as necessary to achieve the intended goal of change? Which skills need to be developed / expanded and which employees are interested? How will we do this and what methods will we use?
  • Shaping leadership models
    What behaviors expressed by management at the various levels of the organization contributed to the deficit in the results achieved? How do you have to change the roles and responsibilities of your superiors? What actions should be taken to shape the desired behaviors of superiors at different levels of the organization?
  • Model the way you think and behave
    What mentality is rooted in the organization? Which values ​​/ assumptions in the mentality must be changed to achieve the set goal? What actions do you need to take to change the way you think and behave?

Planet Lean

We publish captivating case studies, inspiring methodologies and columns via our newsletters, social media,Web Sites  web Planet Lean.

Lean Global Network Executive Committee

John Shook

Roberto Ronzani

Oriol Cuatrecasas

René Aernoudts

Matthew Savas

Josh Howell

Denise Bennett

Christopher Granville Thompson

Cevdet Ozdoğan

The Lean Global Network in the world

Argentina
Lean Institute Argentina

Australia
Lean Enterprise Australia

Botswana
Lean Academy Botswana

Brasile
Lean Institute Brasil

Canada
Lean Institute Canada

Canada
Lean Mining Institute

Cile
Instituto Lean Chile

Cina
Lean Enterprise China

Colombia
Lean Institute Colombia

Danimarca
Confederation of Danish Industries

Francia
Institut Lean France

Germania
Prof. Dr. Cristoph Roser

Ungheria
Lean Enterprise Institute

Islanda
Icelandic Lean Institute

Israele
Israel Lean Enterprise

Italia
Istituto Lean Management

Lituania
Lean Academy Lithuania

Polonia
Lean Enterprise Institute Polska

Portogallo
Lean Academy Portugal

Russia
Lean Enterprise Institute Russia

Singapore
LGN Southeast Asia

Rep. Slovacca
Lean Institute Slovakia

Sud Africa
Lean Institute Africa

Spagna
Instituto Lean Management

Olanda
Lean Management Instituut

Turchia
Lean Institute Turkey

Regno Unito
Lean Enterprise Academy

Ucraina
Lean Institute Ukraine (LIU)

Emirati Arabi
Lean Gulf Institute

Stati Uniti
Lean Enterprise Institute