Lean Transformation Summit 2008
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK
21 November 2008
Welcome
Over 300 delegates listened to 12 presentations on lean process, lean management, lean leadership, lean transformation and lean strategy at the first one day UK Lean Transformation Summit for senior managers on 21st November 2008 at the QE II Conference Centre in London.
Audience reaction was very positive and we will organize further events of this kind in the future.
What the Summit was about
Are you realising that there is more to lean than engaging employees in eliminating waste through deploying lean tools, running rapid improvement events and sending lean experts from HQ to help?
Are you struggling to get functional managers to cooperate in linking activities across your organisation and beyond into seamless end-to-end processes that deliver more value at lower cost?
How much time do your managers spend fire-fighting instead of leading process improvement activities and developing the problem skills of their employees?
Are you using the scientific method to define your key objectives, to plan your improvement activities and to reflect and spread the results across your entire organisation?
Are you spending a huge amount of time and effort to sell your products to strangers rather than working with your customers to help them solve their problems?
Presentations
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Session I What would a lean organisation look like?
What if every process in your organisation was lean?
Daniel Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK
Author of The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking and Lean Solutions
What would happen if you were taken over by a really lean organisation?
Frits Nygaard, Senior Advisor, DI Confederation of Danish Industries, Denmark
Previously Director of Production at Radiometer when it was taken over by the Danaher Corporation
What changes as you move from modern management to lean management?
James Womack, President, Lean Enterprise Institute, USA
Author of The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking and Lean Solutions
Session II What is the role of top management?
How can visual management help prioritize actions for top management?
Takashi Tanaka, Founder of Q-V Systems, USA, in partnership with the Toyota Engineering Corporation, Japan
Previously worked in product development for Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan
How can lean leaders develop their people through A3 thinking?
John Shook, Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute, USA
The first westerner to work for Toyota in Japan and the USA and author of Learning to See and Managing to Learn
How do you focus everyone on doing the right things using strategy deployment?
Pascal Dennis, Principal, Lean Productivity Systems, USA
Previously worked at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and author of Andy and Me and Getting the Right Things Done
Session III How different is a lean transformation?
How to diagnose your organisation to chart your lean journey?
Stephen Parry, President, See Business Differently, UK
Previously Head of European Strategy and Operational Development at Fujitsu Services and author of Sense and Respond
How do you design a lean transformation process across a large enterprise?
René Aernoudts, Chairman, Lean Management Instituut, Netherlands
An organisation development expert leading several lean transformations
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How to develop managers able to lead and sustain end-to-end value streams?
Dave Brunt, Senior Fellow, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK
Previously worked at Rolls Royce and Porsche GB and author of Creating Lean Dealers
Session IV What is the true potential of lean?
What does being customer focused really mean?
Alan Mitchell, Chair of the Buyer Centric Commerce Forum, UK
Writer and author of Right Side Up and The New Bottom Line
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How we designed our business around our customers’ problems
Alex Cheatle, CEO, Ten, UK
An entrepreneur who turned a concierge service into a problem solving business
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Lean strategy: Going where your competitors will struggle to follow
Daniel Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK
Author of The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking and Lean Solutions
Speakers
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Copyright Notice
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