JAMES P. WOMACK

 James P. Womack

 

James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., a nonprofit training, publishing, conference, and management research company chartered in August 1997. During the period 1975-1991, he was a full-time research scientist at MIT directing a series of comparative studies of world manufacturing practices. Womack lead the team that coined the term “lean production” to describe Toyota’s business system as the research director of MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program.

 

Books Authored by James P. Womack:

• ·         1990 The Machine That Changed the World
• ·         1996 Lean Thinking
• ·         2005 Lean Solutions
• ·         2011 Seeing The Whole Value Stream