Jennifer Ayers, Author at NWHPEC

02Aug 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Book Club: The Sensei Way at Work – Aug 19th – Sept 16th

Book Club

Book Club: The Sensei Way at Work – The Five Keys to a Lean Business TransformationAuthor: Dan ProckBack by popular demand as an encore. If you haven’t joined us in the past, now is your chance. This is a fun opportunity to discuss a great book with a group of NWHPEC community members. The Sensei Way at Work identifies the five keys that sustain successful lean production in Western enterprises—a challenge that has stymied business leaders, managers, and lean coaches for decades. It provides a detailed guide to the ways of being, thinking, practices and skills that leaders must develop both in themselves and in employees that make continuous improvement a way of doing business. Creating a culture of continuous improvement can’t be delegated. It has to be led, and this…

02Aug 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

The Bench – Aug 15th @12:30

Benchmark Request

Join us for another open-forum exchange of best practices. This is a great way for members to come together to talk and share about a particular topic. This month the topics you can choose from are 1) Metrics or 2) Lean product development/Lean project management. You bring the questions and challenges; the group will offer advice and share lessons learned. Intended Audience: All NWHPEC members. Please share internally with individuals connected to and interested in any of these topics.Date: Monday, August 15thTime: 12:30pm - 1:30pmLocation: Zoom (webcam preferred)Cost: Free (NWHPEC members only) Registration: via Zoom, link

13Jul 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Striving Towards a Lean Culture – July 26 @11am

Member Sharing

Featuring NWHPEC members! Are you curious about what a Lean Culture looks like and how you create one? Do you want to hear more about the challenges organizations face as they try to change the culture? Do you want to learn about successful tips for creating and influencing a Lean Culture? There is a lot of context behind the two words: Lean Culture. It may also come with a bit of a stigma. In our summer Member 2 Member (M2M) sharing event, you'll be able to hear six individuals from various roles in multiple organizations share their perspectives and experiences around the topic of Lean Culture. What have they seen? What have they experienced? What are their successes and failures? You'll hear some bite-sized ideas that you'll be able to…

24May 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Project Management Excellence Workshop – June 15th @8am (Class is FULL)

Classes

Project Management Excellence (including new product introduction)Facilitator: Norbert Majerus In my nearly forty years in the industry, I have lived through the evolution of project management—from no value added to a system where every major work is managed by a project manager and where hundreds of projects are going on at the same time. Today, project management is an institution, a function, a discipline, much like manufacturing, R&D, and finance. As such, it requires continuous learning and improvement. It should come as no surprise that project management can benefit from the same Lean and operational excellence principles than other functions have experienced. Among others, Lean thinking can transform project management toward perfect delivery (on time, on target, etc.), higher quality, improved speed, and more people engagement. New Lean insight can…

17May 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Driving alignment and execution with Personal Management Systems – June 7th @11:30

Webinar

In a world filled with annual objectives, how can you create a management system that allows you to effectively deploy those goals throughout your organization and embed them into the personal management system of each individual so everyone uses scientific thinking when striving towards their goals. Come see how I combined deployment using cascaded Kata Challenges with Personal Management Systems (think leader standard work) to help develop my organization while striving towards our goals. Learning objectives:Learn how to use cascaded kata challenges to align all leaders to organizational objectivesLearn how to create a personal management system that ensures you are being intentional with where you spend your timeLearn how to build reflection into a standard review process and assess changes and adjustments to your objectives and personal management system as…

11May 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Making the Case for Lean Innovation – May 16th @1pm

Webinar

Join us as we hear from innovation expert Norbert Majerus as he shares the keys to creating a culture and a process where innovation thrives. The performance of a company’s innovation process has a huge effect on its top and bottom line. Lean practices and thinking are used to build an innovation system that is predictable, fast, agile, and efficient. The lean culture promotes the engagement, collaboration and creativity needed to leverage the innovation potential through all parts of an organization. You can expect to hear:• What a lean innovation system can do for your organization• Examples of successful implementations• The change management process needed to transform the culture at the process• Roles at different levels in the organization required to build a sustainable innovation system Date: Monday, May 16thTime: 1-1:45pm (Pacific)Venue: Online…

26Apr 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Book Club: The Sensei Way at Work – May 13 – June 3rd

Book Club

Book Club: The Sensei Way at Work - The Five Keys to a Lean Business TransformationAuthor: Dan ProckIt's time for our spring book club. If you haven't joined us in the past, now is your chance. This is a fun opportunity to discuss a great book with a group of NWHPEC community members. The Sensei Way at Work identifies the five keys that sustain successful lean production in Western enterprises—a challenge that has stymied business leaders, managers, and lean coaches for decades. It provides a detailed guide to the ways of being, thinking, practices and skills that leaders must develop both in themselves and in employees that make continuous improvement a way of doing business. Creating a culture of continuous improvement can’t be delegated. It has to be led, and this…

Author: Jennifer Ayers