Webinar – NWHPEC

17Jan 2023 by Jennifer Ayers

Best Practice Sharing: Order Fulfillment – Preparing to Hyper-scale – Jan 19th

Curious about how to utilize Value Stream Mapping in your organization? Join us online on Jan 19th @10am to hear how RealWear value stream mapped their order to invoice process and is using that to create a strategic plan for their order fulfillment growth. In early December, the NWHPEC community came together to learn and apply Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to RealWear’s ‘Order to Invoice’ process. This report out is an opportunity for you to see how the process unfolded, the direction they are heading, and how they are approaching the implementation of improvement ideas generated during the event. The RealWear supply chain team shares why an improvement was needed, the process used to understand the current state, what they learned by mapping the process, and how they intend to…

01Jan 2023 by Jennifer Ayers

Webinar: Developing Lean Line Leaders – Nov 15th @10am

Member Sharing, Webinar

If you’re looking for new ways to engage and develop leaders in your organization, you won’t want to miss this practitioner best practice sharing presentation. Learn how to use lean tools to develop production leaders to see and solve issues quickly. Milgard began by developing leads, supervisors, and other production leadership in lean basics. Centered around a daily focus on accountability, 5S, and problem solving opportunities within agreed upon KPI’s. Learn how the company transformed from a state of high staffing turnover, where leaders saw problems as something to hide and the number of units produced was the only metric that mattered, to a state of daily coaching to developing line leaders as first-tier problem solvers. Our presenters, Mark Waggoner and Brittney Webber presented this to a crowd of over…

01Jan 2023 by Jennifer Ayers

Lean IT Panel Discussion – Nov 17th @11am

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Harmonizing Lean and Agile to drive value in IT Do your IT-enabled processes work to create and flow customer value? Is information and technology enabling your people’s success? Are you grappling with scoping and delivering projects on time, testing new technology, and working more closely with business units to understand their needs? At their core, Lean and Agile are both about leveraging technology to deliver customer value with the least effort required. In order to achieve this, we remove all unnecessary effort – ambiguity of process, avoidable mistakes, self-inflicted variation, corrections, rework, delays, and extra steps. As the world evolves, success is becoming increasingly driven by technology and the speed at which we can deliver a product or service. The formula for success includes focusing on process and working together…

02Aug 2022 by Jennifer Ayers

Sowing the Seeds of Lean – Aug 23rd @10am

Webinar

Webinar You can't implement lean overnight. In fact, you shouldn't try to implement lean at all. Lean won't "stick" unless it is integrated into your organization and people believe in the new way of thinking and acting. This takes patience, persistence, and participation. In the gardening world, you can't just throw a bunch of plants in your backyard and expect them to grow and flourish. Success requires more than just planting them in the soil. The best gardeners plant a seed in a controlled environment so they properly germinate, then acclimate them before they are transferred to the garden where they continue to care for them daily. Gardening provides an excellent metaphor for keys to introducing and integrating lean into an organization. Organizational culture change requires people to understand, buy…

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

The Power of Perspective – May 9th @11am

Webinar

We are ultimately striving to help others realize their full potential and perform at their fullest potential. To achieve true success, a leader and/or coach must first develop self-confidence and then help develop confidence for those within their span of care. Join us as Sam Morgan walks us through his discovery of how when you See More, you Believe More, and ultimately Do More. Are you ready to unleash the power? For one year I was a kata learner.For one year I was a kata coach.For one year I saw the power of perspective. In practicing the Toyota Kata I witnessed firsthand how having multiple perspectives helped me. It taught me to see outside of my bubble into all the color and beauty, all the shades and hues the world…