Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together »

James P. Womack is the president and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute (www.lean.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Daniel T. Jones is the chairman and founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy (www.leanuk.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in the UK.

In their bestselling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production - principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

In this landmark new book, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it. Across all industries, companies that apply the principles of lean consumption will learn how to provide the full value consumers desire from products without wasting time or effort - theirs or the consumers' - and as a result these companies will be more profitable and competitive.

Lean Solutions will inspire managers to take the first steps toward perfecting their company's process of giving consumers what they really want.