Lean Education Academic Network
Purpose
The purpose of the Lean Education Academic Network (LEAN) is to create amazing learning experiences for university students in the field of organizational and operational excellence.
Mission
LEAN exists to advance organizational and operational excellence in higher education by cultivating a collaborative community of educators, practitioners, and students. We are committed to designing transformative learning experiences that equip university students across the United States with the mindset, methods, and skills of continuous improvement, systems thinking, and scientific problem-solving—empowering the next generation of leaders to create value-driven, resilient, and innovative organizations.
Activities
Currently LEAN has formed teams to develop activities
- Creating amazing student experiences
- Case and/or project competitions
- Lean book of knowledge
- Annual symposium
Specific information about these activities will be posted to separate pages on this site. Links to these pages will be provided on this home page. (note: We need the different groups to start preparing content for these separate web pages.)
Collaboration
Please register by linking to the “Join Our Network” page on this website. In addition to this website, LEAN also administers a Lean Education Academic Network LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13355030/). We invite you to join this group.
Research
As a network of academics influenced by Lean research, LEAN supports the College of Operational Excellence (COE) with the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS). Research is presented at the annual POMS Conference. Academics who desire to more information about the COE should visit https://www.poms.org/colleges/oe.
University Administration
LEAN supports the application of Lean in university administration. However, LEAN is not the group for effort. LEAN supports Lean in High Education (Lean HE) organization. Those interested in Lean in university administration can visit the Lean HE website at https://www.leanhe.org or join the Lean in Higher Education LinkedIn group, https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3897797/.