James P. Womack was the research director of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is the founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit institution for the dissemination and exploration of the Lean thinking with the aim of his further development of the Lean Enterprise.

The Machine that Changed the World
2007
ISBN 9781847370556
Lean thinking
1996
ISBN 9780684810355
Le systeme qui va changer le monde
1992
ISBN 9782100011803
Gemba walks
2011
ISBN 9781934109380
Penser l'entreprise au plus juste
1996
ISBN 9782842110185
Lean solutions
2005
ISBN 9780743277785