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Lean Management Journal
LMJ issue 4, volume 2, is now available!
All will be weighed and measured
Understanding lean assessment methods.
IN THIS ISSUE:
- The Shingo model for operational excellence: Bob Miller discusses the Shingo model and explains how firms can use it to assess their performance while aspiring to company-wide improvement.
- The central nervous system of lean: Matt van Wyck looks back at his experience with designing an improvement programme for DeBeers.
- Take company uniqueness into account: Stay away from prescriptive approaches to lean accounting. John Darlington on the risks of adopting methods that are recognised as successful but do not necessarily match the characteristics and needs of a business.
- Unstoppable: This month LMJ attends the Lean Management Summit in Amsterdam and meets some of the best companies presenting there, for the It’s a lean world special on the Netherlands.
- Critical Initiative Support: improving operations in Afghanistan: Tim Clancy and Adam Sommers of IBM Global Business Services explain how Critical Initiative Support can help bring change about in difficult situations where results are needed quickly.
Look out for upcoming lean events
LMJ Annual Conference 2012
May 29-31, The Hilton Metropole, Birmingham NEC
www.leanmj.com/annualconference
The Lean Management Journal invites you to the flagship event for lean and continuous improvement professionals. Speakers from North America, UK, Europe and South Africa will give an international dimension to this year’s conference as they share the latest insights, best practice and thinking in three days of unrivalled personal development.
New features of the 2012 Annual Conference include:
- Ideas Exchange Sessions, informal group sessions to exchange best practice tools and techniques;
- post-conference workshops followed by site assessment visits;
- Lean Leaders Networking Dinner on Tuesday 29th May.
Now in its third year, the LMJ Conference helps you understand the fundamental concepts you need in order to improve your way of doing business and achieve excellence, drawing on best practice from organisations and lean leaders and focusing on the integration of both lean and systems thinking.
Day One 29th May: Main Conference
Speakers include: Steve Welch, group continuous improvement manager, Yeo Valley; Peter Watkins, global lean enterprise and excellence director, GKN; John Bicheno, director of MSc Lean Operations, Lean Enterprise Research Centre; Gwendolyn Galsworth, p resident, Visual Thinking Institute; Richard Holland, managing director, TBM, UK, India & South Africa; Bob Hafey, president, RBH Consulting; Bill Bellows, president, In2In Thinking; and Dr Nick Rich, honorary fellow, Cardiff Business School.
Day Two and Three 30th & 31st
- Thinking for Lean Workshop – 30th May
- Lean Accountancy Workshop – 30th May
- Lean Safety Workshop and Site Assessment Visit – 30th& 31st May
- Visual Thinking Workshop and Site Assessment Visit - 30th& 31st May
For delegate enquiries, please contact Benn Walsh on 0207 202 7485 or email b.walsh@sayonemedia.com
The Manufacturer of the Year 2012
Call for entries
The Manufacturer of the Year Awards 2012 is a rare chance for you, your team and your company to receive industry-wide recognition for your achievements. The World Class Manufacturing Award is one of the most heavily competed categories of the awards and recognises the manufacturing plant that is achieving the highest levels of operational excellence. The Awards programme entry deadline is July 31, site visits will take place in October and the Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner in November. For award enquiries and further details, contact Laura Williams on +44 (0) 1603 327006 or l.williams@sayonemedia.com.
World Class Manufacturing Factory Tour
May 22, New Holland Agriculture, Basildon
Winner of the 2011 World Class Manufacturing award, New Holland Agriculture (part of the CNH Group) will be providing a unique one-day event combining a best practice site tour together with a deep dive development session to illustrate the World Class Manufacturing Pillars that have helped the company to achieve world class status and to be crowned winners of this coveted award. Delegates will have the opportunity to see how New Holland Agriculture has and continues to implement WCM - and to be on the never ending road to developing a continuous improvement culture within its plant. By seeing the tools in action and talking to the pillar champions, delegates will have a clear understanding of the building blocks the plant is using to construct a truly world class manufacturing operation. To register a place, please contact Benn Walsh on +44 (0)207 202 7485 or b.walsh@sayonemedia.com.
2nd Industrial Lean Product and Process Development (LeanPPD) Workshop
June 14, Cranfield University
The objective of the workshop is to showcase the state-of-the-art methods and tools, as developed by Cranfield University (sponsored by EU-FP7) based on action research with the industry. This can enable the organisations to introduce and implement lean thinking in product design and development. The main topics are: Set-Based Concurrent Engineering, Lean Knowledge Life Cycle, Lean Design, A3 Thinking for Problem Solving and Change Management toward LeanPPD Environment. Several industrial perspectives and case studies will also be presented by speakers from BAE Systems, Elekta, Rolls-Royce and Visteon Engineering Services.
For more information, please send an email to leanppdcu@cranfield.ac.uk or contact Dr Ahmed Al-Ashaab on a.al-ashaab@cranfield.ac.uk
Lean Six Sigma Middle East
June 10-13, Millennium Hotel, Doha, Qatar
Organisations in the Middle East are continually exploring methods to drive productivity and accelerate the operational performance of their organisation. Lean and six sigma are strategies being utilised across multiple industries to achieve business agility and a culture of continuous improvement to optimise customer processes and service quality throughout your organisation. The Summit will highlight the use of these strategies in different sectors and departments to significantly maximise your revenue and increase the effectiveness of your improvements. Speakers will include Osama Jbarah of Qatar Petroleum, Mohammed Nasser of Eli Lily Saudi and Anand Venkateswaran of Gulf Bank.
Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
June 6-7, Minneapolis, Minnesota
At the 3rd Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, you will learn how innovative experiments are changing the way we deliver and pay for healthcare and how consumers and employers are driving a healthcare value focus by demanding transparency of cost and quality data across the system. You'll learn from thought leaders and pioneers forging new paradigms for the healthcare system. There will be special keynotes by John Toussaint, Harold Miller, and John Shook, coupled with down to earth, real experiments from pioneers forging new ground every day. Come spend two intense days, learning from thought provoking keynotes, a topical panel discussion, interactive learning sessions and the industry's very best networking.
Operational Excellence Society
Meet leaders and professionals from your local business community and discuss the most common problems companies experience in trying to achieve excellence. You will go home with many ideas and a lot to think about, and with new interesting contacts.
May’s highlights:
Warsaw, May 14, 6pm
Venue: Terere Restaurant
Kazimierz Grabski, LQS Service Delivery Manager at Lionbridge, will give a presentation entitled “Operational excellence and dialogue”
For information please contact Malgorzata Krukowska on krukowskamj@xonitek.com
New York City, May 21, 5.30pm
Venue: I tre merli
Leigh Brand of Brand Consulting Group will give a presentation entitled “Operational Excellence in Government”
For information please contact Richmond Hulse on hulserj@xonitek.com
Other Operational Excellence Society chapter meetings include:
Munich, May 8, 7pm
Venue: Restaurant Ludwigs
For information, please contact Martin Haack on haackmf@xonitek.com
Dubai, May 14, 5.30pm
Venue: to be determined
For information, please contact Andy Gibbins on andy@glasconsulting.org
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