About

Lean CEO is dedicated to spreading lean enterprise leadership information and resources. The website is owned and operated by Factory Strategies Group LLC.

The website currently receives several thousand visitors a day, and the monthly e-newsletter reaches over 45,000 opt-in subscribers globally. Detailed demographics are available in the Advertising section.

Lean CEO evolved from the Superfactory website, which was a lean manufacturing information portal. In early 2011 Lean CEO was created to broaden the focus to lean enterprise leadership.

History

1997: Superfactory is started as a simple list of manufacturing-related internet links.

1998: Several colleagues ask for access to the list, so the public website is created.

1999: The website hits a milestone of over 1,000 categorized resource links.

2000: The monthly e-newsletter is added, with book reviews, articles, events, and news.

2002: To help offset increasing costs, a small group of digital knowledge products are added.

2004: The Evolving Excellence blog is created.

2011: Lean CEO is created.