Daniel Jones
Author of The Lean Strategy
Daniel Jones
Author of The Lean Strategy
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Advisor
2017 - Current
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.
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.
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.
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
Education
BA Hons
1967 - 1970
MSc
1972 - 1973
A Levels
1965 - 1967
Primary and Secondary
1956 - 1965