The Jacksonville Lean Consortium provides the competitive edge your organization needs to succeed!

The JLC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve business performance and promote economic growth through the implementation of Lean Thinking, Tools, and Methodologies.

We provide educational opportunities for members to effectively implement Lean Practices. Working together we assist our members in achieving world class results. Our objective is to establish the First Coast as a Center of Excellence for implementing Lean Thinking in the United States. We hope to utilize our success to promote economic development and attract new business throughout the First Coast.

The Jacksonville Lean Consortium delivers results.

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What is LEAN?

• Lean is the systematic, relentless elimination of waste and non-value added activity
• Lean focuses on delivering more value to the customer
• Lean methods seek to create efficiency based on optimizing flow
• Lean is about respecting, enabling, and empowering people
• Lean continuously asks the question, “How can we get better?”

What LEAN is NOT:

• Lean is NOT the elimination of people or employees
• Lean is NOT a passing fad or phase
• Lean is NOT about micro-managing
• Lean is NOT forsaking quality to cut costs