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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.
