DJ

Daniel Jones

Author The Lean Strategy, Lean Solutions, Lean Thinking & The Machine that Changed the World

United Kingdom

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

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Work Experience

  • Senior Advisor

    2017

    Founding Chairman now handed over to CEO Dave Brunt

  • Member of the Editorial Board

    2014

    Planet Lean is a digital platform for the Lean Global Network and the wider lean movement

  • Chairman

    2003 - 2017

    Founded this non-profit education and research organisation as the source of Lean Thinking in the UK. Organised Lean Summits in the UK and Europe from 1997 onwards. Published Breaking Through to Flow, Creating Lean Dealers, Making Hospitals Work and Lean Thinking for the NHS.

  • Senior Advisor

    2007

    Founded a network of 18 non-profit Lean Institutes with James Womack to spread lean thinking across the world. Joint Chairman of LGN with Jim Womack from 2007-2012.

2013

  • Senior Advisor

    2013

    Senior Advisor to this innovative lean startup offering a unique, hassle free solution for ecommerce providers and committed to exploring how lean thinking and lean startup practices can distinguish it from the competition.

  • Senior Advisor

    1998

    Founding Board Member of LEI from 1998 to 2010.

  • Editor in Chief and Board member of the International Commerce Institute

    1997 - 2010

    Advisor to the European ECR movement and Board member of the International Commerce Institute and Editor in Chief of the ECR Journal/International Commerce Review.

  • Professor of Management

    1989 - 2004

    Founding Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, the first academic research unit focused on lean thinking.

1993 - 2003

  • Principal (part-time)

    1993 - 2003

    Helped establish Unipart U as the first in-house corporate University in the UK to spread lean thinking across the Unipart Group of Companies.

  • Member of the Rethinking Construction Task Force

    1998 - 1998

    The Rethinking Cosnstruction report, chaired by Sir John Egan introduced lean thinking to the UK construction sector and led to the Movement for Innovation in Construction.

  • European Director

    1985 - 1990

    Co-Director of this global benchmarking project of the auto industry.

1977 - 1989

  • Senior Research Fellow

    1977 - 1989

    Applied research on European Industrial Policy at the Sussex European Research Centre and then on Innovation and the global auto industry at the Science Policy Research Unit