“I commend your team on structuring the course for adult learning styles - lots of breaks, fast paced, mix of lecture, workshop and hands on experiments.”

Timothy S. Matt
Vice President, R&D
Marley Engineered Products

Become a Member

Train

The Tennessee Lean Enterprise Center will help turn your company into a learning organization. Companies may send individuals to the University of Tennessee for training in one of two ways:

Public Course: Join your peers from a broad spectrum of industries. A huge benefit of the public course environment is the opportunity to learn and share from others who are facing the same challenges in their journey to excellence.

Custom Course: Our program directors can work with you to develop the program that best suits your particular needs delivered when and where you need it.

The latest course offerings are Lean for Administrative Processes and Lean Health. Lean for Administrative Processes identifies process wastes, analyzes solutions, and applies countermeasures to improve an organization’s performance in realizing its mission, goals, and strategies while Lean Health targets delivering high quality care in an efficient manner while removing waste, variation and constraints.

Do

The Tennessee Lean Enterprise Center will help your company with its lean implementation effort through the Lean Graduate Internship Program.  Knowledgeable students will be hired by your company, through the Lean Graduate Internship Program, to provide assistance and extra manpower crucial to your lean implementation endeavor.

Study

Take part in one of several Lean Study Groups that are being researched right now. The Lean Study Groups explore lean concepts that our Tennessee Lean Enterprise Center Executive Advisory Group would like developed and are applicable to all industries. Also, we utilize faculty and/or graduate students to work on Lean Study Projects. These projects are funded by one or two companies and are specific to their industry.

Share

Individuals will probably benefit the most from this column of the Temple of Success. This support of the structure will give practitioners quick and easy access to resources that will develop their knowledge of the lean enterprise. The TennesseeLean Enterprise Center has already searched books, articles, case studies, etc. that will help expand on particular areas of interest in relation to lean in our Lean Reference Desk. Also, practitioners may travel to the Lean Success Conference every year to learn how others are applying lean and to discuss and resolve implementation issues with other professionals. Between conferences, practitioners may communicate with each other through the Lean Enterprise Idea Exchange which is a discussion forum that will link practitioners and members of academia to resolve questions efficiently.