Lean Management: Reduce waste and boost efficiency (Udemy.com)
Learn how to use the principles of lean management to optimize production, eliminate waste, and maximize customer value
Created by: PracticalGrowth Learning
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- What lean management is and how to make it work for your organization
- How to effectively lead and improve your team using lean principles
- Eliminating unnecessary tasks and delays in your production process
- Reducing mistakes, overproduction, and overprocessing caused by your workflow
- Mapping out, analyzing, and optimizing your own process
- How to improve your team using lean principles
- What it takes to build a lean culture within your organization
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 27% of them
- Reviews5,576#148 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length0.8 hoursshorter than 93% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 56% of them
Course Description
Did you know that 20% of all businesses fail within their first year and only 50% make it to year five?
Simply put:
Good processes reduce waste
Bad processes cost your business money
Improving processes directly improves your profitability
Efficient processes create more opportunity for your business to thrive
So the question then becomes …
How do you make sure you have the right processes in place to ensure your business is primed for success and in a position to be as profitable as possible?
Because, let’s face it … if the processes in your business aren’t as effective or efficient as they can be, you’re not only reducing your profitability, you’re also doing a disservice to both your customers and your entire organization.
That’s where Lean Management comes in.
Lean Management is an approach that seeks to eliminate any waste in a business process by cutting out steps that don’t create value.
This waste can be caused by:
Delays in your production process
Too much time spent working on features you don’t need
Too much inventory sitting idle, costing you money
Any mistakes or defects you have to fix
And by using lean management principles to reduce this waste, you’ll not only be able to increase the value of whatever you provide, you’ll also be able to pass the savings onto your customer and potentially be in a position where virtually no one can compete with you.
Effective lean management can also:
Boost sales
Improve customer satisfaction
Increase customer lifetime value
Create a massive following of brand evangelists who religiously promote everything your company has to offer
So how exactly can you use the principles of lean management to optimize your production process, maximize customer value, and build a lean culture within your organization?
Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this course.
We’ll cover:
What lean management is and how to make it work for your organization
How to effectively lead and improve your team using lean principles
Eliminating unnecessary tasks and delays in your production process
Reducing mistakes, overproduction, and overprocessing caused by your workflow
Mapping out, analyzing, and optimizing your own process
How to improve your team using lean principles
What it takes to build a lean culture within your organization
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to apply lean principles and create teams that thrive by eliminating waste, maximizing customer value, and developing their workers into highly skilled and motivated teams.
Let’s get to it.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
5,576 Reviews
PracticalGrowth Learning
PracticalGrowth is a San Francisco-based education studio producing practical workplace courses for professionals, managers, and modern teams.
Our catalog covers leadership, management, HR, project delivery, communication, customer experience, AI, productivity, business strategy, operations, and career development. Each course is designed to help learners build useful skills they can apply directly in their work.
With three professional studio locations across the United States, PracticalGrowth creates polished, studio-produced courses that combine clear instruction, practical examples, and focused workplace learning.
The company was founded by Evan Kimbrell, a longtime online instructor whose courses have reached millions of students worldwide and remained bestsellers for years. Evan’s background spans online education, startups, venture capital, and digital product development.
With more than 350,000 learners and 133,000 reviews, PracticalGrowth is focused on building a practical, high-quality workplace learning catalog for people who want to learn efficiently and apply what they learn immediately.
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Reviews
By Xin Yi Leow on 8/13/2026
Will be good if there are more concrete examples and the relevant illustrations rather than some stock video in the background. For a udemy programme it seems that much less effort is being put in than a youtube video.
By CHONG GENG LIANG on 8/5/2026
This course is very informative and serves as a good refresher for participants who have experience working in lean teams. However, there may be information overload for participants who are not familiar with or learning lean values and principles for the first time. It may be worthwhile to reduce the amount of content in this course to allow participants to digest and internalize the contents better.
By KYAW SWAR LINN on 8/3/2026
Lean is a better way to improve our workflow, process and efficiency and also value add to the customer by doing work efficiently and effectively. Should learn.
By MELVIN TAN YI EN on 8/2/2026
Quite clear, but maybe consider adding a bit more examples towards workflow that is more office based as well. There are some examples, just that more would be much clearer.
By Maria Diaz on 6/23/2026
like it. I already want to implement what I learned from those videos. I also realized that we are doing some things wrong in the company when it comes to building a teamwork culture
By Vickie Suddeth on 3/4/2026
The instructor is very clear on his lectures. I can understand and follow again with ease. The material is very easy to adapt to.
By RAFAEL CHAVEZ MAGAÑA on 1/3/2026
Es muy importante eliminar los desperdicios en todos los aspectos y buscar como eliminarlos en todas las fases del proceso, se debe involucrar a todo el equipo para trabajar todos en un mismo objetivo y alcanzarlo de manera más eficiente creando el sentido de pertenencia en todos los colaboradores
By Anonymized User on 10/16/2025
it is a very good course, I would recommended the entire group to go through this course as it is an eye opener in lean structures that focus more high productivity for customer focus.
By Janani v on 5/31/2023
It was very useful to learn on principles of lean and how to improve our quality and efficiency of work in all terms, overall it was an amazing experience and the detailed explanation was provided
By Konrad Bujak on 12/25/2017
Good course, I wish a bit more positive energy for the teacher. Good and understandable english. The minus would be that there were not enough examples, like real time examples but it would be hard to pack this up in such small course.
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