Prof. Dr. Daniel T. JONES Founder & President Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA), London, UK

Daniel T. Jones is a management thought leader and advisor on applying lean, process thinking pioneered by Toyota to every type of business across the world. He is the founding Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy (www.leanuk.org) in the UK, dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of Lean Thinking and helping others with its implementation. His work has inspired the very successful implementation of lean by Tesco and many other companies.

He is the author with James P. Womack of the influential, best-selling management books – “The Machine That Changed the World”, and “Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation” – which describe the principles and practice of Lean Thinking in production.

Their latest book “Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together” extends these ideas to consumption, provision and service delivery.

These books have triggered a worldwide movement of lean practitioners and the establishment of the Lean Global Network of Lean Institutes (including the Lean Enterprise Academy) which teach lean locally and have organised over 25 Lean Summits in the USA, UK, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Poland, Turkey, South Africa, India, China and Australia.

Daniel T. Jones was the European Director of MIT's Future of the Automobile and International Motor Vehicle Programmes and Professor of Manufacturing Management and founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University Business School. He was a member of the UK Government's Rethinking Construction, Manufacturing Futures, Automotive Innovation and Growth and Skills for Sustainable Communities task forces. He helped establish the first Company University in the UK at Unipart and the International Car Distribution Programme (ICDP). He is an advisor to the grocery industry's Efficient Consumer Response (ECR Europe) movement.