Dan Jones is the founding chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy in the United Kingdom, an organization specializing in lean thinking implementation. Jones is a best-selling author of an array of influential lean thinking manuals, offering insights gleaned from the implementation of lean strategies at organizations such as Tesco. His management books (including co-author of “Lean Thinking”) sparked a worldwide lean practitioner movement and led to the establishment of the Lean Global Network, a coalition that has organized more than 25 lean summits around the globe. Jones has served as the European director of MIT’s Future of the Automobile and International Motor Vehicle Programmes, and a professor of manufacturing management and founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University Business School.
