Lean Institute Africa Summit 2025

Join us at the LIA Summit, where thought leaders and practitioners will discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in Lean management. Engage in insightful discussions, network with industry peers, and gain practical knowledge to advance your Lean journey.

Themes for this year’s summit include:

 

  • Developing and Engaging Your People
  • Staying Current in the Evolving Digital Age
  • Best-Practice Industry Training Practices
Face-to-face
28 – 30 October 2025
Venue TBC
"Engage in insightful discussions, network with industry peers, and gain practical knowledge to advance your Lean journey."

Featured Speakers:

Keynote speakers and case study presentations are being confirmed.

2024 Summit Highlights:

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Reducing Press Changeover Time Using SMED Workshops and a Daily Management System

A3 Problem Solving Template

Hoshin Kanri – X Matrix

Toyota Kata

Improving Customer Value in the Insurance Industry

Covid Vaccination Roll Out – Matching Supply and Demand

Are your metrics helping your organisation improve its performance?

14 things I wish I knew when I started my Lean Journey

Industry 4.0 or Lean 4.0?

Correcting Errors in Our Thinking

Relentless Leadership. In a Time of Crisis.

SA Mass Vaccination Preparation: a View through a Small Window

As we learn by doing

A Call to Arms

The Learning is in the Struggle with Terry O’Donoghue

Lean Healthcare amidst Covid19: Interview with Len Deacon, SA Homecare

The Question of Employee Engagement

If there is a plan, but most people don’t know about it, then is it a plan?

“We need more staff!”

Covid19 and the C-5 lens

Mapping Uncharted Waters Webinar with Dr Robert Campbell

How to embed improvement into your organisation using the Daily Management System – Webinar Recording & slides

Managing Remote Teams & the Lean Management Journey Webinar Recording & slides

Take your life in your hands

Lean for Doctors

Failing Forward

Why Best Practices Fail to Spread

Lean helps save lives in South Africa

Taking the lean leap in private healthcare

Leading large-scale lean change

Buy-in, Do-in, Stay-in

Kaizen in Africa – A trip to Tunisia

Leratong Hospital: Reflecting on our lean healthcare journey

A crazy little thing called change

Why we believe a strong customer focus is needed to drive a Lean strategy

Is Lean an outcome…or what you do?

Magical Thinking

Whimsical Reflections Lean Summit Africa 2018

The Story that Graphs (don’t) Tell

Why We Believe People-Free Plants and Services Prevent Learning

Gauteng hospital waiting times down thanks to ‘lean’ initiative

Companies on a drive to become more efficient

Lessons on transforming manufacturing in India

A tale of successful lean transformations worldwide

The Double-Loop PDCA

Future Work and the Evolution of Lean

This bakery found out how inspiring lean books can be

Lean Management Relieves State Healthcare Headaches

Does Lean Make Cents?

Lessons from my Lean Lifestyle Challenge

Constancy of Purpose in Turbulent Times

What did you learn in Japan?

The “Hard-Core Toyota Guys”

Demanding patience

Lean leading improvements in Gauteng Department of Health Hospitals

Is Lean (Management?) the Counter-measure to the Complexities of Management? – July 2017 Newsletter

Health Systems Strengthening Through Culture Change: A Paradigm Shift

The Deceptively Simple A3 Problem-solving Method – March 2017 Newsletter

Tanzanian Lean Healthcare conference – February 2017

Lessons from Lean Collaboration – January 2017 Newsletter

The on-going evolution of Lean Management – November 2016 Newsletter

Exploring the softer side of lean – September 2016 Newsletter

How LIA is Creating Value for its Customers – August 2016 Newsletter

Human Resources and the Lean Transformation – July 2016 Newsletter

Lean Management, more than just waste elimination

Is it a fact that it’s not easy to see? – February 2016 Newsletter

Will it Work to Simplify the Toyota Coaching Kata? – November 2015 Newsletter

Lean Healthcare Summit 2015

Why I haven’t mastered lean – October 2015 Newsletter

Dr John Toussaint: On Redesigning Processes for the Patient

Plug and play: achieving quick results at Gauteng hospitals – September 2015 Newsletter

‘Abnormal Doesn’t Have to be the Norm’ in SA’s Public Sector

Cracking the Code to Reduce Service Delivery Waiting Times – August 2015 Newsletter

Photographs from Gauteng Department of Health & Lean Institute Africa Collaborative project on reducing waiting times

Management on the Mend

Lean Approach Cuts Waiting Times at Gauteng Hospitals

John Toussaint provides a guide to a system-wide lean healthcare transformation

Is it enough to build the people to build the business? – June 2015 Newsletter

The Promise of Lean in Healthcare, by John S. Toussaint, and Leonard L. Berry

On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare

On death and dying and organisational change

Lean Turnaround, by Art Byrne

Clear Direction: Drive the right change in the right way

Showing Respect – May 2015 Newsletter

Standard work & mistake-proofing lessons from an Antarctic swim

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Doing is understanding: A3 … a profound Lean tool

A visit to Thedacare: A mile deep AND a mile wide – March 2015 newsletter

LIA Helping Gauteng Hospitals Get Lean

Gemba … The Scene of the Crime

Harmony – should lean organisations strive for this?

Everything I Know About Lean I Learned In First Grade

Gauteng Department of Health project: Encouraging first steps – February 2015 Newsletter

Analysing organisational rhythm: shock advised…charging

Managing to Learn, by John Shook

Perfecting Patient Journeys

LIA Collaborator Blog: Sorting to the point of discomfort

Two Years in Tanzania and a Whole New Understanding of Purpose

LIA Collaborator Blog: Addressing South Africa’s health system dilemmas, one entrepreneur at a time

LIA Collaborator Blog: Lessons learnt on an oil rig….how to improve healthcare

Stopping the Line: A Visit to Abidjan, Ivory Coast November 2014 Newsletter

Seeing normal from abnormal – October 2014 Newsletter

Making a city great – Denise Bennett

Can we design enjoyable work?

UCT business Prof to advise on operations management support for government

Cracking the wrong whip

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28 – 30 October 2025

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