The Academy of Lean Enterprise Excellence is led by its Principal Leads, Darrin Taylor and Aidan Walsh. The Academy brings together industry, policy, and academia to develop high quality and actionable research that advances the literature on Lean thinking and practice and which can be applied within public and private organisations and across all services and manufacturing sectors to enable and sustain Lean Enterprise and Operational Excellence.
The Academy involves a number of faculty who lecture and research in areas related to Lean, including Professor Peter Hines, a recognised global thought leader in Lean and Visiting Professor at the WIT Business School. It is part of the RIKON Centre and includes several PhD by Research students presently undertaking research in various areas related to Lean and Operational Excellence.