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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- As you know, it’s difficult to achieve continuous improvement. Lean efforts generate many successes, but not so many sustained ones. Lean projects tend to rely on dedicated lean experts, and when they turn their attention to the next improvement project, the one just completed degrades. Overall improvement progress is slow, the cultural change to continuous improvement doesn’t happen, and we fail to tap the creative capability of the wider workforce.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Join LEI for the largest workshop event of 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. 17 one-day and two-day workshops compile a curriculum that includes LEI’s most popular workshops focusing on the social and technical aspects of a lean transformation. All workshops contain elements of classroom and experiential learning to cater to all learning styles and preferences. You will learn through participation in exercises, discussions, role plays, work with case studies, deep-dive into your organization’s business problems, and much more. See schedule below.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization, has opened registration for the “Improvement Kata/Coaching Kata” workshop that helps companies create and sustain cultures of continuous improvement.

The workshop will run Oct. 16–18, 2012, at LEI, 215 First St., Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute is offering a comprehensive series of lean management workshops for Sept. 18–20, 2012, in Indianapolis. The sessions will address the technical as well as the “people” or social aspects of lean manufacturing and lean service transformations. Registration for the 17 workshops is now open.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- In this free webinar, “Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata,” on June 28, 2012, at 2 p.m. EDT, lean researcher, author, and thought leader Mike Rother will explore a bit of improvement kata thinking. A kata is a well-rehearsed routine that becomes second nature, and the improvement kata is a routine for how you and your team can strive ahead systematically and scientifically every day.

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(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, MA) -- Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, a workbook published by the Lean Enterprise Institute on how to apply lean principles to supply chains and logistics, has won a 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run 13 workshops April 3–5, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas, addressing the technical and social aspects of lean manufacturing and lean service transformations.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization, will run a program of 11 lean management workshops in Atlanta, Oct. 18–20, 2011, in one of LEI’s biggest and broadest lean learning sessions of the year.

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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Implementing lean management principles in manufacturing, distribution, and supply chains are major tracks in a series of lean workshops scheduled by the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) for Minneapolis, Sept. 13–15, 2011.

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(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, MA) -- Next year’s Lean Transformation Summit explores lean practice from two angles. From a Fundamental perspective, you’ll see how large and small companies in a variety of industries launched and sustained lean transformations. The same companies also will reveal new frontiers of lean thinking, demonstrating they are developing new practices and creating new knowledge. You'll learn from:

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