JAMES P.WOMACK, Ph.D.

JAMES P.WOMACK, Ph.D.
President and Founder of Lean Enterprise Institute

James Womack, Ph.D. is the founder and president of the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), a nonprofit training, publishing, and research organization founded in August, 1997, to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the Toyota Production System and now extended to an entire Lean Business System.

The intellectual basis for the Institute is described in a series of volumes and articles co-authored by Womack over the past twenty years.

The most widely known of these are  :

1. The Machine That Changed the World (Macmillan/Rawson Associates, 1990)
2. Lean Thinking (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
3. Seeing the Whole Mapping the Extended Value Stream (Lean Enterprise Institute 2002)
4. From Lean Production to the Lean Enterprise , Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1994,
5. "Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection", Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1996
6. “Lean Consumption”, Harvard Business Review, March 2005. His latest book with coauthor Daniel Jones on streamlining the provision and consumption value streams will be published in fall 2005.