Course Syllabus

This Lean Management course offers a practical introduction to lean management principles and techniques. This course is tailored to help students implement lean manufacturing in business environments to improve productivity, business resilience, and to reduce waste. In particular, this course...

·    Offers an overview of lean manufacturing techniques and initial advice on how to implement them in a business context.

·    Offers enough knowledge on lean management so that managers can make fully informed decisions about whether or not to adopt lean management, what lean techniques and tools are relevant to their particular environments, and the additional steps that might be necessary to implement lean management in their specific environment.

·    Presents a set of core lean management principles, tools, and techniques that are relevant to most manufacturing and service business models. Students, however, may note that some principles are more relevant to their particular form of business than others – this class offers the means for managers to select the principles and tools they wish to apply.