LAI's EdNet

Welcomes 35th Member

December 11, 2008

The Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla has become the 35th member of the Lean Advancement Initiative's Educational Network (EdNet). University President Dr. Alfredo Miranda, Vicerrector Academico Herberto Rodriguez Regordosa, and Professor Pablo Nuno visited LAI on December 10 to finalize UPAEP's membership. LAI and UPAEP staff will meet again In April 2008 when LAI researcher Dr. Ricardo Valerdi speaks at UPAEP's anniversary celebration for its Department of Engineering, Technology, and Information.

LAI researcher Dr. Ricardo Valerdi, LAI Membership and Communications Manager Nicolene Hengen, and UPAEP visitors Vicerrector Academico Herberto Regordosa, Dr. Alfredo Miranda, and Professor Pablo Nuno.

LAI's EdNet is an international network of colleges and universities in the U.S., U.K., and Mexico that is designed to educate and train current and future professionals in lean enterprise transformation principles and practices by producing university-level lean curricula and offering training seminars. EdNet members work together to draw on the best and latest enterprise transformation research to create and constantly update these unique curricula and seminars, which are presented across the country as the LAI Lean Academy series. Lean Academies are delivered by a combination of LAI and EdNet staff, visiting experts from member organizations, and university faculty. By offering highly respected Lean Academies and training university faculty to deliver them through a growing collection of university-based training centers, EdNet has trained thousands of professionals and continues to provide an ongoing working laboratory for sharing enterprise transformation knowledge. LAI and its members have successfully made EdNet into a highly leveraged, unique international resource that directly and significantly benefits LAI's members.