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Lean Advancement Initiative

Vision

The Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at MIT enables enterprises to effectively, efficiently, and reliably create value in complex and rapidly changing environments.

Mission

LAI enables the focused and accelerated transformation of complex enterprises through collaborative stakeholder engagement in developing and institutionalizing principles, processes, behaviors, and tools for enterprise excellence.

Spotlight

New International Lean Product Development (PD) Research Findings

Former LAI visiting scholar Joern Hoppmann (Technical University of Braunschweig) proposes a novel definition of a lean product development (PD) system; his work combines existing PD approaches into a single framework. Hoppmann surveyed 113 PD departments in international companies based in Germany, the U.S., China, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, and Sweden with revenues of less than $100 million to more than $100 billion. The companies represent the automotive, electronics, industrial equipment, aerospace manufacturing, medical device, naval shipbuilding, and defense sectors.

Upcoming Events

11-12-2009 - 11-13-2009 | 12:00 Sustaining Lean Practices Through Organizational Education
11-18-2009 | 16:15 Organizational Antecedents for Enterprise Agility
12-01-2009 - 12-01-2009 | 14:00 WEBINAR Implementing Lean in Product Development Systems