James P. Womack
Founder and Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute at MIT Professional Education
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- MIT Professional Education
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Biography
MIT Professional Education
Dr. James Womack is the father of the lean movement and has been talking about creating value through continuous innovation around deep customer understanding for many years. Jim will share his insights about value creation in a fast moving world where customers often seek a solution to complex problems involving many products rather than a single product: Mobility rather than a car, or health support to prevent disease rather than just an insurance policy. You can’t afford to miss this important talk.
Recieved a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1970, a master's degree in transportation systems from Harvard in 1975, and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1982 (for a dissertation on comparative industrial policy in the U.S., Germany, and Japan).
Co-author of The Machine That Changed the World(Macmillan/Rawson Associates, 1990), Lean Thinking (Simon & Schuster, 1996), Lean Solutions (Simon & Schuster, 2005), and Seeing The Whole Value Stream (Lean Enterprise Institute, 2011).
Articles include: "From Lean Production to the Lean Enterprise" (Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1994), "Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection" (Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1996), “Lean Consumption” (Harvard Business Review, March-April, 2005).
Videos
Lean Summit 2008 - Jim Womack - What changes as you move from modern management to lean management?
Lean Thinking's Past, Present, and Future: A Q&A Roundtable with Jim Womack and Jim Morgan
Lean Summit 2011 - Jim Womack - Learning from the Lean Pioneers
Jim Womack on Lean Tools as Tools for Creativity
Jim Womack on Reasons for Value-Stream Maps
Take the Value-Stream Walk: Presentation by Jim Womack
Womack 1 - 5 Principles of Lean
Lean Summit 2010 - Jim Womack - Reflections on Lean Leadership
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UK Lean Summit 2014 - Lean Enterprise: Starting Up, Growing Up & Starting Over - Jim Womack
5 Good Questions with Jim Womack
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