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Spend a
day solving problems with world Lean expert David Meier.
November 30th 2009
David
Meier – introducing the facilitator
David is an
internationally recognised authority on Lean Manufacturing and the
Toyota Production System (TPS). David is the co-author of the
bestselling books, The Toyota Way Fieldbook, and Toyota Talent,
with Jeffrey Liker. In these hand books David and Jeff detail the
language, concepts, and tools that managers need to bring Toyota’s
success-proven practices to life in any organisation. David was a
leader at Toyota, trained in Japan and Kentucky over a ten year
period by Toyota Production System experts. David teaches A3 and
problem solving for the Lean Enterprise Institute, USA. David
facilitated a similar workshop at the 5th Lean in
Manufacturing and Service Summit in Melbourne earlier this year
which receive excellent feed-back.
Workshop
Overview:
In this
workshop David Meier will outline the process used by Toyota that
guides their thinking, problem solving and improvement
activities.
This
process is greatly applicable to the issues facing organisations
today. While the problem solving process appears simplistic, the
true challenge is in guiding and facilitating work teams and
helping them to maintain focus and to stay on track. This
capability is particularly applicable where problems involve
cross-functional areas of the organization, and require an ability
to guide interdisciplinary teams of people. In the workshop David
will show how the first decision of identifying the problem clearly
and concisely is the key to maintaining focus, and in achieving
overall success. David will provide practical advice on how to
avoid the most common mistakes, and how to achieve maximum results
with minimal time and cost.
Workshop
numbers will be limited to 25.
Target
Audience:
The workshop is for Lean practitioners and leaders who have
responsibitity for starting or accelerating the application of lean
thinking in an organisation, using the immensely succesful Toyota
model.
Learning
Outcomes:
- Learn how
to develop and sustain lean processes using powerful
approaches.
- Learn how
an A3 report format is used to "tell the story".
- Learn how
to facilitate the process and how to avoid the most common
mistakes.
Price
(including GST):
$950 per
person
$875 per
person for 2 or more participants from the same
organisation.
For
further information or to register:
Email Peter
Walsh at pwalsh@lean.org.au
Registrations
for the workshop close Novemer 20th. |