Dr. James P Womack

James Womack is the Founder and President of the Lean Enterprise Institute: a non-profit educational and research organization chartered in 1997 to advance lean production and lean thinking. The Institute is conducting a series of research activities to create a tool kit of methods for implementing lean thinking in a wide range of industries. The Institute also sponsors a series of educational meetings through the year and helps people to apply lean thinking in entirely new applications such as health care, construction, and distribution.