25th & 26th June 2012 at the Novotel Cardiff

LERC Annual Conference 2012Innovations in Lean Thinking

Lean Enterprise Research Centre

Celebrating 10 Years of the UK’s Leading Lean Conference

We are delighted to welcome George Koenigsaecker as the keynote speaker for the 10th Anniversary of the LERC Conference.

George is a Board Member of Simpler Consulting LP, a world leader in lean-focused management consulting, a principal investor in several lean enterprises and a Board Member of the Shingo Prize (the international award for lean enterprises), the Association of Manufacturing Excellence, the Thedacare Center for Healthcare Value, Baird Capital Partners, Gefinor Venture Partners and Watlow Electric Corporation.

From 1992 until 1999 he led the lean conversion of the HON Company, a $1.5 billion office furniture manufacturer. His efforts led to a tripling of volume and culminated in the company being named by Industry Week Magazine as one of the ‘World’s Best Managed Companies’.

Prior to this, George was President of the Jacob’s Vehicle Equipment Company (featured in the book ‘Lean Thinking’ by Womack and Jones) and Group President of the Tool Group, then the largest business unit of Danaher. In addition to leading the lean conversion of these operations, he developed and implemented the ‘Danaher Business System’, a comprehensive lean enterprise model. In 2009 he published ‘Leading The Lean Enterprise Transformation’, a leader’s perspective on lean implementation.

Of the 12 companies that he placed on lean journeys, all are still traveling that path today. It is the sustainability of the lean system that has been his life’s interest and work. His success in bringing lean to the companies he managed, and now invests in, stems from his insistence that lean be viewed as a long-term investment:

‘Companies must be willing to go through their value streams many times to receive the most value. Until you have gone through your value-stream processes at least five times, you haven’t really experienced lean’, he explains. Ultimately, he believes that leaders must be humble and be able to learn, ‘for learning is how you design a culture that is sustainable through multiple generations’.

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Day 1 agenda – Monday 25th June

7.45 - 8.15 Registration

8.25 Welcome - Simon Elias LERC

8.30 - 9.10 Noel Hennessey, Lake Region Medical - A Successful Lean Transformation

9.10 - 9.20 Questions

9.20 - 10.00 Denis Becker, Gemalto - Generating Fast-Paced Improvement with Shop-Floor Teams

10.00 - 10.10 Questions

10.10 - 10.50 Gary Steele, Muradi - De-stressing the Distress Purchase

10.50 - 11.00 Questions

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee

11.20 - 12.20 George Koenigsaecker, Keynote Speaker - Lessons Learned

12.20 - 12.30 Questions

12.30 LERC Update

12.40 - 1.30 Lunch & Split into Streams

1.30 - 2.10 Manufacturing: Paul Whyte, Depuy - Exploring the Use of System Thinking to Understand and Plan Change

Service: Jackie Thomas & Ann Esain, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust & Cardiff Business School Productive Ward - Is it Really a Lean Intervention?

2.10 - 2.20 Questions

2.20 - 2.30 Coffee

Why Lean Initiatives FailGeorge Koenigsaecker will share his work over the past decade, specifically in understanding what a lean culture looks like and what the few, key, leadership behaviours are that have characterised the few truly successful lean leaders. How have they transformed existing ‘brownfield’ organisations into strong, continuous improvement-orientated cultures which have generated significant lean success?

Meeting for 5.00pm drinks, then a pre-conference talk with George Koenigsaecker followed by a Q & A and buffet afterwards

Pre Conference Q & ASunday 24th June from 5pm

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2.30 - 3.10 Manufacturing: Andy Brophy, Lean & Innovation Facilitator - The Compounding Power of Employee Driven Incremental Innovation

Service: Glynis Caulfield, Unipart Rail - Lean in Transactional Procurement Operations

3.10 - 3.20 Questions

3.20 - 4.00 Manufacturing: Robin Howlett, Britvic Soft Drinks - Leader Standard Work Driving Continuous Improvement

Service: James Sandfield & Jacob Austad, Nestle, Switzerland - Transactional Lean -A Case Study of a Business Turnaround (Jacob) & The Lack of Real Progress in Lean in the last/next 25 years (James)

4.00 - 4.10 Questions

4.10 - 4.15 Re-group

4.15 - 5.00 Chris Cooper, Simpler - The Simpler Design System – How we Developed a True End-to-End Lean Product Development System

5.00 - 5.15 Questions

5.15 - 6.00 Q & A, John Bicheno & George Koenigsaecker

6.00 Close

7.00 Dinner After Dinner Speaker: George Koenigsaecker: The ‘Must Do’s’ if a Leader is to Succeed with a Lean Transformation

Day 2 agenda – Tuesday 26th June

8.00 Coffee

8.30 - 9.10 Kate Mackle & David Bowles, Thinkflow & The Royal Mint - Cash Flow: Transforming the UK’s Oldest Manufacturing Company

9.10 - 9.20 Questions

9.20 - 10.00 John Bicheno, LERC - Reflections on the Absolutes of Lean

10.00 - 10.10 Questions

10.10 - 10.50 John Darlington, LERC - Lean, Time and Money

10.50 - 11.00 Questions

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee

11.20 - 12.00 Owen Buckwell, Portsmouth City Council - Customers Not Accolades – A Different Way of Delivering Customer Services

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12.00 - 12.10 Questions

12.10 - 12.50 Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation Network - Global Innovation Capability Maturity Model

12.50 - 1.00 Questions

1.00 - 1.30 Lunch & Split into Streams

1.30 - 2.10 Manufacturing: Garry Hencher, DS Smith Packaging - Lead Time Reduction: A Case Study

Service: Nick Downham, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement - Shaping the Future of General Practice

2.10 - 2.20 Questions

2.20 - 2.30 Coffee

2.30 - 3.10 Manufacturing: Shane Maher, Depuy - Integration: The Way Forward for the Supply Chain - A Case Study of Integration Methodologies and Outcomes at a Leading Orthopaedic Manufacturer

Service: Sarah Powell, Royal Surrey County Hospital - Show me the Evidence – Engaging Doctors in Service Improvement

3.10 - 3.20 Questions

3.20 - 3.25 Regroup

3.25 - 4.00 Matthias Holweg, Judge Business School - Lean, Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma? On the Evolution and Convergence of Improvement Methodologies

4.00 - 4.10 Questions

4.15 Close