The Lean Enterprise Academy will be presenting at the annual Lean Global Connection (LGC) online event. Please join us on 21st – 22nd November for 24 hours of lean content live broadcast. Hear about the best lean cases from around the world. In addition, learn from the leading experts in our community. Let’s build the future together!
This year’s Lean Global Connection will help you to make sense of a messy, changing world, by bringing you the stories of adaptiveness of those organisations that are leveraging creativity and lean to find their way forward.
Developing adaptiveness in a changing world
The greatest gift of Lean Thinking is the ability to adapt. But what strategies, practices and mindsets do we need to rely on in order to develop this fundamental trait in our organisations and become resilient?
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. Words like “deglobalisation” are being used more and more, reflecting an increasingly complex and multipolar world, in which countries are looking to “de-risk” by minimising global interdependencies.
A new Cold War seems to be setting in, weakening already compromised supply chains and forcing companies to come up with new and clever ways to move goods, while a new arms race is heralding change for many economies. At the same time, the spread of generative AI threatens to transform the labor market as we know it, with unpredictable consequences. You may think this has nothing to do with you, but make no mistake… these historic changes will impact the way your organisation operates.
To thrive, businesses will need to understand the world they are in, be curious and willing to experiment, while coming up with solid long-term strategies. Leaders will have to do their part, ensuring that continuous learning permeates their organisations and that the right skills are developed.
LEA Session Breakdown for Lean Global Connection:
Self-Reliant Lean
In October 2023, TechnipFMC Umbilicals Ltd site director asked for ‘problem solving training’. Asset downtime was an issue impacting the business causing longer than planned lead times. The site director recognised similar problems were recurring and concluded they were not getting to the root cause. The problem to solve was to develop problem solving capability to help reduce asset downtime associated with maintenance and quality-related issues through robust root-cause analysis. Fast forward 12 month, join Brian to find out how TechnipFMC Umbilicals got on…
Brian Chilton - Global Business Excellence Manager, TechnipFMC
Lean Transformation Research - 2024 Update
Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA) – Learn about their latest research in applying Lean Thinking & Practice. LEA’s practical research on Lean Transformation is carried out directly with many organisational leaders. It has highlighted some of the common GAP’s they have when applying Lean thinking and practice to their unique business problems.
One of the biggest transformation GAP’s is around understanding how to develop leaderships capability to learn and teach Lean to others through real practice. They will highlight the specific key problems and failures that organisations have on capability development, but will also show a proven example of how to help leaders develop their own skills through “learning by doing”.
David Brunt - CEO, Lean Enterprise Academy
David Marriott - Senior Lean Coach, Lean Enterprise Academy
Peter Watkins - Senior Lean Coach, Lean Enterprise Academy
Lean in legal: applying Lean to virtual processes
Join Stephen to explore how Weightmans transformed its new legal case intake process using the Lean Transformation Framework. As lean newcomers, Weightmans identified inefficiencies, eliminated bottlenecks, and built a management system to enhance their team’s capabilities and deliver greater value. They’ll share insights on improving both business operations and people development, showing how any organization can adopt lean principles for meaningful, impactful results.
Stephen Hepplestall - Business Change Project Manager, Weightmans
Andrew Johnston - IT Training Team Leader, Weightmans