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MIT launches lean management DVD

MIT has released a DVD which shows businesses the latest research by one of the brains behind lean management.

Lean Enterprise Institute has put out ‘Womack on Lean Management’ a DVD about the thinking of James Womack, the head of the research team from  Massachusetts Institute of Technology which gave lean its name.

Lean is a practice which considers the expenditure of business resources for any goal other than the creation of profit to be wasteful. It identifies areas that a business can eliminate to streamline its products and services.

This latest DVD documents the latest think behind lean and features a seminar and questions and answers session between Womack and a number of business managers and executives. 

Womack said that companies need to fully understand lean tools and think differently to reap the complete benefits of lean.

He added that lean management is not only about waste reduction from operational processes but claimed that business would benefit more from lean if it is employed through the whole company – improving leadership and transforming traditional enterprises. Executives and managers have to examine their own methods not just company methods according to Womack. 

The DVD addresses why lean is the successor to other management systems, why modern management is flawed, how businesses can benefit from lean, why implementing some lean systems in old management styles is flawed, how to use lean tools effectively and how to implement change in a resistant environment. 

Copies of Womack on Lean Management currently retail for around £190 and can be bought online.

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