Event Date

11 November 2010

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Lean Enterprise Center

Event Date

2 November 2010 - 3 November 2010

Host

Lean Enterprise Academy

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Jun 2010 · Press Release

The Israel Lean Institute (ILI) recently hosted Chris Vogel, the Lean leader who was a driving force behind the Lean transformation at the Wells Fargo Home and Consumer Finance Division, … Read More ›

By John Toussaint, Roger Gerard · Released 2010

Part case study, part manifesto, this groundbreaking new book by a doctor and a healthcare executive uses real-life anecdotes and the logic of lean thinking to make a convincing argument that a revolutionary new kind of healthcare — lean healthcare — is urgently needed and eminently doable.

Dr. Toussaint shares a personal anecdote from Chapter 8 “Remodeling Behavior” about how to transform healthcare’s “shame and blame” culture. (Note: To view the above clip, your company must allow streaming video.)In On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry John Toussaint, MD, former CEO of ThedaCare, and Roger A. Gerard, PhD, its chief learning officer, candidly describe the triumphs and stumbles of a seven-year journey to lean healthcare, an effort that continues today and that has slashed medical errors, improved patient outcomes, raised staff morale, and saved $27 million dollars in costs without layoffs. Find out:

How lean techniques of value-stream-mapping and rapid improvement events cut the average “door-to-balloon” time for heart attack patients at two hospitals from 90 minutes to 37.
What ThedaCare leaders did to replace medicine’s “shame and blame” culture with a lean culture based on continuous improvement and respect for people.How the lean principle of “building in quality at the source” broke down divisions among medical specialties allowing teams to develop patient care plans faster.
Why traditional modern management is the single biggest impediment to lean healthcare.
How the plan-do-study-act cycle coupled with rapid improvement events cut the wait time at a robotic radiosurgery unit from 26 days to six.
How the lean concept of “one piece flow” saved time in treating ischemic stroke patients, increasing the number of patients receiving a CT scan within 25 minutes from 51% to 89%.
How senior leaders at other healthcare organizations can begin their own lean transformations using a nine-step action plan based on what ThedaCare did — and what it would do differently.
Toussaint and Gerard prove that lean healthcare does not mean less care. On the Mend shows that when care is truly re-designed around patients, waste and errors are eliminated, quality improves, costs come down, and healthcare professionals have more time to spend with patients, who get even better care. Get your copy of this important new book today.

If you have questions or comments for the authors of On the Mend, you can call 920-735-7213.

 

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By Robert Martichenko, Kevin von Grabe · Released 2010

Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream will change the way you think about your supply chain and logistics networks. Even better — it gives you a way to act using lean principles to transform and continuously improve these two key flows.

In this pioneering workbook, lean logistics veterans Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe explain step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers, including practical insights into two critical concepts: calculating the total cost of fulfillment and collaborating across all functions and firms along the fulfillment stream.

Your company, like most, probably calculates costs at different points within departments, such as the piece price paid by the purchasing department to a supplier. Few companies figure the total cost associated with each major function across the whole fulfillment stream. Calculating total cost, which most executives find surprisingly large, lets you measure the impact of your improvement efforts on operational performance and overall income.

Martichenko and von Grabe also give you guidance and tools for collaboration. Using the example company ABE Corp. as their model, the authors illustrate how the lean conversion process is a win-win for every company along the supply chain. And an accompanying analysis illustrates the financial benefits and shows you how to apply the metrics.

The narrative, supported by 41 charts and illustrations, including value-stream maps, shows you:

How to apply the eight guiding principles for implementing lean fulfillment, even when all the data and variables are not known.
The seven major types of waste in logistics and supply chains.
How a fulfillment-stream council of representatives from internal departments, customers, suppliers, and transportation providers gives critical guidance and support.
The “eight rights” for assessing perfect order execution.
What lean metrics to use, such as why average days on hand of inventory is a better measure than inventory turns.
How to identify and eliminate waste in shipping, receiving, and yard management.
Learn how to use lean management principles to convert supply chains and logistics networks into smooth, fast-flowing fulfillment streams. Get your copy of this important new book today!

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Event Date

7 October 2010 - 8 October 2010

Host

Lean Institute Africa

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By James P. Womack · Released 2010

In this special seminar, lean management thought leader James Womack explains how to manage and lead in a lean management system, the successor to obsolete “modern management” methods.

Most managers and executives are futilely trying to fix their existing “modern management” systems, descended from methods introduced by Alfred Sloan in the 1920s. Why try to perfect a management approach that is fundamentally outdated and broken?

In “Womack on Lean Management,” you’ll hear management thinker, author, and LEI founder James P. Womack, Ph.D., explain why and how managers and executives must think and act in new and different ways as part of a new management method called “lean management.”

In this two-hour seminar recorded live, Womack explains why lean management is the successor to modern management; how your behaviors as a manager or executive must change dramatically, and how you can thrive in this new system. The disc includes a PDF of the seminar slides.

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Apr 2010 · Article · John Shook

Recently I am cornered frequently by beleaguered lean change agents eager to show me their scars inflicted by re-energized resistors. Lean naysayers have seized the Toyota crisis to resist change, … Read More ›

Feb 2010 · E-Letter · Daniel T. Jones

We are often asked to evaluate how lean an organisation is. How far it has progressed down its lean journey and what its next steps should be.

By Morgan, James and Jeffrey K. Liker · Released 2006

The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking company in the automotive industry.

In The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology, James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker compare and contrast the world-class product development process of Toyota with that of a U.S. competitor. They use extensive examples from Toyota and the U.S. competitor to demonstrate value stream mapping as an extraordinarily powerful tool for continuous improvement.

Through examples and case studies, this book illustrates specific techniques and proven practices for dealing with challenges associated with product development, such as synchronizing multiple disciplines, multiple function workload leveling, compound process variation, effective technology integration, and knowledge management.

Readers of this book can focus on optimizing the entire product development value stream rather than focus on a specific tool or technology for local improvements.

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