Jim Womack on Lean’s Evolution, Boeing, Toyota, Tesla, and the Future of Improvement

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #499 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is James P. Womack. Jim really needs no introduction for this audience, he’s the founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute (in 1987) and remains a senior advisor to them. In the late eighties, he and Dan Jones led MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Research Program (IMVP), which introduced the term “lean” to describe Toyota’s revolutionary management … Continue reading Jim Womack on Lean’s Evolution, Boeing, Toyota, Tesla, and the Future of Improvement