My friend and neighbor Ron Pereira (his blog and twitter pages) is a partner in the Gemba Academy online Lean training efforts. Yes, neighbor. We live about two miles apart in Texas. Seriously.

Anyhoo, Gemba Academy is celebrating its first anniversary and is celebrating by offering a free 11-disc DVD Lean training package to the first 500 people who sign up for a 6-month or 12-month online training subscription to the entire training set. That way, you have the DVDs to use if you don’t have a reliable internet connection. There’s a video on this page that describes the offer if you’d like to learn more about that and other offers.

About LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology, focused on improving quality and patient safety, improving access, reducing costs, and fully engaging healthcare professionals. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for KaiNexus.