James P. Womack

• Co-author: "The Machine That Changed the World" (1990), "Lean Thinking" (1996), "Lean Solutions" (2005), "Seeing the Whole", (2007), "Gemba Walks" (2013).
  
  
• Research Director, International Motor Vehicle Program, MIT, (1979-1991) where the term "lean" was introduced in 1987.
  
  
• Founder and Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute (1997) and Lean Global Network (1998.)