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IDEO (pronounced “EYE-dee-oh”) is a global design consultancy helping the world’s most audacious dreamers create braver tomorrows. We activate our science of design with the alchemy of our wide-eyed and wonderful creative people to make futures you can click, feel, taste, test, and believe in. Our early days were filled with designing groundbreaking physical products, but 40 years in, you’ll find that we’ve been busy working on the future of almost everything, from sustainable supply chains with H&M to design-oriented organizations with Ford, entire civic infrastructures with Intercorp—and so much more.

Our purpose is to unlock millions of people’s potential to create value for themselves, organizations, and society. We succeed when inspired people find the clarity to drive healthy growth and build invincible companies worldwide. To make this happen, we’ve designed the global standard and platform for universal business challenges. We shift mindsets to transform strategic innovation, organization, and culture.

The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) helps companies and people make things better through lean thinking and practice. We also help managers and executives develop the leadership behaviors that sustain lean enterprises. LEI was founded in 1997 by management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., as a nonprofit research, education, publishing, and conference company with a mission to advance lean thinking around the world. We conduct research projects, teach courses, hold lean management seminars, write and publish books and workbooks, organize public and private conferences, and offer custom training & consulting. lean.org that offers free content including: Case studies Articles Podcasts Webinars Book excerpts Forms & Templates Workshops (online and in-person) on basic and advanced lean management principles and tools including: value-stream mapping for production and nonproduction environments, pull production and leveling, logistics, standardized work, product development, strategy deployment, change agent skills, lean culture change, problem solving, lean leadership, and more. Training & consulting for organizations including, getting started assessments, leadership development, custom training, and enterprise transformation. Conferences, including the annual Lean Summit. #Lean #FutureofWork #LearningOrganization #ContinuousImprovement #Management #Leadership #PeopleDevelopment