Lean Advancement Initiative

The Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at MIT:

Is a network of world-class MIT researchers and experts in a wide range of fields.
Serves as a neutral broker with extensive links across academia, industry, and government.
Offers multiple years of experience, a deep enterprise knowledge base, and expertise that spans multiple domains, including industry, military, and healthcare.
Has a successful history of developing and applying unique enterprise tools and techniques to enterprise challenges in military organizations.
Includes a unique international consortium of international universities and colleges, the LAI Educational Network (EdNet).

The Guide to Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs

Oehmen, Josef; Oppenheim, Bohdan W.; Secor, Deborah; Norman, Eric; Rebentisch, Eric; e.a. (Joint MIT‐PMI‐INCOSE Community of Practice on Lean in Program Management, 2012-05)

This document provides the findings of the Joint MIT‐PMI‐INCOSE Lean in Program Management Community of Practice that are based on a 1‐year project executed during 2011 and 2012. The community was made up of selected subject ...
Value Creation Through Integration Workshop

Warmkessel, Joyce (2002-01-30)
Preliminary Observations on Program Instability

Rebentisch, Eric (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-10-10)

This white paper reports emerging findings at the end of Phase I of the Lean Aircraft Initiative in the Policy focus group area. Specifically, it provides details about research on program instability. Its objective is ...