Lean Summit 2010 - New Horizons for Lean Thinking
Building a Business Case for Lean
John Darlington, LERC, and
Daniel Jones Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy
John Darlington
John Darlington is a management consultant specialising in Lean Enterprise applications applying lean principles across the entire enterprise, from design to delivery.
He develops programmes of practical implementation integrating improvements to the physical flow of the product or service, and the information flow that converts customer demand into actions.
A qualified accountant John won the Toyota “Prize for Best New Idea” at the South African Production and Inventory Control Society and has been a guest speaker at APICS.
His recent work has been on compression of manufacturing lead-time to gain competitive advantage and on valuing and directing improvement activity. He combines application with teaching for Cardiff Business School’s Lean Enterprise Research Centre founded by Dan Jones on their MSc course specialising in mapping, capacity planning and scheduling and where he has developed Flow Costing.
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