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LMJ issue 13 is now available!
Moving forward: the future of lean
What’s next? Lean always evolves to adapt to ever-changing conditions. This issue, the last of 2011, analyses new trends, tools and types of training, offering a preview of what tomorrow will bring.
Articles in issue 13 include:
- Who Will Lead Business Transformation?: Author Andrew Spanyi explains the importance of cross-functional collaboration.
- Beyond 5S: Joseph Ricciardelli, a MSc professor and founder of Tecla Consulting, introduces some of the new tools available to practitioners.
- A model factory to help a struggling territory: This innovative form of training might represent a new way to show academia and businesses how to work together to deliver change on a wide scale.
- What the future holds: What are mature lean organisations going to do next? Jon Alder of Rexam tells us about his company’s plans for the future.
- Lean diary: In this new regular column we follow Serbian manufacturer SCGM as it takes its first steps towards excellence through a programme of continuous improvement.
- Does it have to be a fiasco?: Edyta Oborka of Schneider Electric and Kevin Kibble and Mark Stanford from the School of Technology at the University of Wolverhampton talk about lean manufacturing in standard and engineering-to-order environments.
Look out for upcoming events from LMJ’s expanding events portfolio
Lean Directors’ Seminar 2011, November 30-December 1, Ambassadors Hotel, London
This two day seminar is designed to support your individual lean journey. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the visual workplace and to best practice regarding the behaviour, knowledge and skills needed to direct a true lean and sustainable business transformation. The first day of the event will focus on visual management, with Gwendolyn Galsworth of the QMI/Visual-Lean Institute. The second day will feature inspiring case studies, including Rexam and Citibank.
For more information on LMJ events or to attend, please contact Benn Walsh at +44 (0)207 202 7485 or b.walsh@sayonemedia.com
Other key forthcoming lean events include:
Orlando Process Excellence Week 2012, January 16-20, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Organised by IQPC, this is the largest annual meeting as part of PEX networks Global Summit Series. Running for over 13 years, it has a longstanding history in bringing together the Process Excellence community for networking, knowledge sharing and benchmarking.
With speakers like Nimbus Partner’s Richard Parker and Steve Tower, founder of the BP Group, the week will enable over 700 attendees to fuse together lean, six sigma and BPM to enable true enterprise-wide excellence; refocus critical improvements from internal excellence to customer experience; and discover how to maximise ROI and tangible business value from Process Excellence programmes at all levels of the maturity model.
Lean in Service and Higher Education, January 25-27, University of Portsmouth
This international conference will explore the transformation of the public sector through lean and other high performance methodologies. The conference will provide a platform for academics, practitioners, public sector leaders and communities of practice to come together to explore, develop and exchange outcomes of high performance methodologies in the public sector. Keynote speakers at the event will include Professor Zoe Radnor from the University of Cardiff, Professor Bob Emiliani (via videolink) from the Central Connecticut State University, Clive Hutchinson from Cougar Automation, Dr Steve Martin of the University of Coventry and Owen Buckley, from Portsmouth City Council. Masterclasses will be offered at an additional price.
Lean Culture, January 30-31, Aztec West Hotel, Bristol
Many companies have adopted the more visible parts of lean such as the training and application of diagnostic and implementation tools and techniques. However, this has often been done in isolation of other key areas. In particular the people element of lean has often been missed or at least underplayed. This advanced workshop, organised by SA Partners, is for middle or senior managers who are seeing just these issues in their organisation. It helps you to understand how to correct this and start developing a lean culture. You will have a chance to understand your existing culture and understand what culture is required to create a lean business system, identify the lean leadership development of managers at all levels, discuss the '5 Dispositions' necessary to lean leadership and make preliminary assessments of managers against them, and design a process of development against the identified needs and in consideration of current leadership development activity. The workshop will be held by Kevin Eyre.
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