Events

In this pre­sen­ta­tion you will learn how to man­age orga­ni­za­tion­al inter­sec­tions by link­ing togeth­er the func­tions, tiers, and work­streams to deliv­er enter­prise excellence.

Pre­sen­ta­tions from the 2019 KataCon5 event. Kat­a­Con is the annu­al gath­er­ing place for Toy­ota Kata Geeks across North Amer­i­ca and around the globe. It’s where the ​“con­vinced” and the ​“curi­ous” gath­er to share what they’re learn­ing, freely and enthusiastically.

The Con­tin­u­ous Improve­ment Lean Col­lab­o­ra­tive (CILC) is a not-for-prof­it, mul­ti- state net­work of pub­lic and pri­vate indi­vid­u­als, orga­ni­za­tions, and com­pa­nies who togeth­er pro­mote con­tin­u­ous improve­ment in busi­ness, gov­ern­ment, and ser­vices. Its goal is to pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for busi­ness, gov­ern­ment, and ser­vice lead­ers to share enhanced approach­es and meth­ods for attain­ing greater excel­lence in oper­a­tional effec­tive­ness, effi­cien­cy, and val­ue to cus­tomers, employ­ees, and stake­hold­ers. It pur­sues this goal through pro­vid­ing a forum for prac­ti­tion­er and orga­ni­za­tion­al learn­ing — with active col­lab­o­ra­tion and shar­ing of knowl­edge, expe­ri­ence, and re- sources across all sectors.

TWI Sum­mit — 2017

The two keynote pre­sen­ta­tions from the Iowa Lean Con­sor­tium con­fer­ence in 2015. Fea­tures Paul Akers, and Karl Wadensten.

Lean Lead­er­ship Week, orches­trat­ed by Lean Fron­tiers, was three con­fer­ences in one: the Sum­mit on Lean Lead­er­ship, Lean Man­age­ment Sum­mit, and the Lean Account­ing Sum­mit. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Lean Fron­tiers, Gem­ba Acad­e­my brings you the presentations.

Ken­co pro­vides inte­grat­ed logis­tics solu­tions that include dis­tri­b­u­tion and ful­fill­ment, com­pre­hen­sive trans­porta­tion man­age­ment, mate­r­i­al han­dling ser­vices, real estate man­age­ment, and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy — all engi­neered for Oper­a­tional Excel­lence. They asked Steve Kane, Gem­ba Academy’s Direc­tor of Sales and Mar­ket­ing, to come to Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee to give the keynote open­ing pre­sen­ta­tion to all of the man­agers of their 5 companies.

The Sioux­land Lean Con­fer­ence was held at West­ern Iowa Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege on Jan­u­ary 15, 2014. Keynote speak­er Mike Wrob­lews­ki, Direc­tor of the Kaizen Insti­tute, presents ​“Cre­ate a Kaizen Culture”.

The Sioux­land Lean Con­fer­ence was held at West­ern Iowa Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege on Jan­u­ary 15, 2014. Keynote speak­er Den­ny Van Zan­ten, Senior Group Vice Pres­i­dent of Pel­la, presents ​“Using Lean to Present a Bet­ter View.”

Pre­sen­ta­tions from the 2014 Sioux­land Lean Conference.

Pre­sen­ta­tions from the 2015 Sioux­land Lean Conference.

Pre­sen­ta­tions from the Lean Start­up track at the Lean Kan­ban North Amer­i­can con­fer­ence. The unique val­ue propo­si­tion of Lean Start­up to the wider lean com­mu­ni­ty is the laser focus on val­i­dat­ing prod­uct mar­ket fit for new prod­ucts, com­pa­nies, or oppor­tu­ni­ties. Com­pa­nies seek­ing to fos­ter inno­va­tion cul­ture on their prod­uct teams, both star­tups and large estab­lished busi­ness­es, are increas­ing­ly adopt­ing lean start­up approach­es as a key com­po­nent of their strat­e­gy for ini­ti­at­ing that inno­va­tion cul­ture, sus­tain­ing it over the long term, and scal­ing it as they grow their businesses.

Lessons learned from Lean in oth­er domains. Lean and sys­tem think­ing is trans­form­ing both con­struc­tion and edu­ca­tion. Con­struc­tion projects range from sim­ple, slow and cer­tain to com­plex, uncer­tain and quick. Defin­ing and deliv­er­ing val­ue begins inside the owner’s orga­ni­za­tion as they sort through the com­pet­ing demands of cus­tomers and inter­nal stake­hold­ers. Like­wise, apply­ing sys­tem think­ing in edu­ca­tion begin­ning with projects – learn­er co-designed course work, com­pe­ten­cy based assess­ment, com­mu­ni­ty inte­gra­tion, and art and design, trans­form the expe­ri­ence, the edu­ca­tion­al process and stu­dent outcomes.

What is the role of prod­uct man­age­ment in the new world of prod­uct devel­op­ment? Is it pri­mar­i­ly a tech­ni­cal func­tion? Or is it more about busi­ness? Today’s meth­ods favor light process­es, face-to-face inter­ac­tion, and brief arti­facts. How­ev­er, exec­u­tive man­age­ment seems to miss the rich detail from the ​“old school” doc­u­ments: GANTT charts, mar­ket require­ments doc­u­ments, and busi­ness plans. The prod­uct man­age­ment track will explore roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties, the impor­tance of sys­tems think­ing, project pri­or­i­ti­za­tion, and the busi­ness process of soft­ware delivery.

The first prin­ci­ple of the Kan­ban Method is ​“Start with what you do now”. Take the cur­rent work and work­ers and the cur­rent process and apply kan­ban to improve vis­i­bil­i­ty, col­lab­o­ra­tion, risk man­age­ment, and pre­dictabil­i­ty. What does the humane, start with what you do now Kan­ban Method have to say about change? A lot! We’ve orga­nized the Kan­ban track in a pro­gres­sion inspired by Kanban’s three ​“agen­das for change”. The sus­tain­abil­i­ty agen­da: bal­anc­ing demand and capa­bil­i­ty at indi­vid­ual, team and depart­ment lev­el, col­lab­o­ra­tive improve­ment. The ser­vice ori­en­ta­tion agen­da: antic­i­pat­ing cus­tomer needs, achiev­ing end-to-end flow, process inno­va­tion. The sur­viv­abil­i­ty agen­da: the pur­suit of fit­ness for pur­pose, cor­po­rate adapt­abil­i­ty, dis­ci­plined leadership.

The Risk track at LKNA 2014 will dis­cuss how an ana­lyt­i­cal approach to risk iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and man­age­ment is an impor­tant part of man­ag­ing Agile mod­ern process­es such as Kan­ban and Lean. A focus of this year’s risk track is prac­ti­cal approach­es to under­stand­ing how our process deci­sions increase the like­li­hood of on-time deliv­ery of soft­ware, and how we would mea­sure that impact. We go beyond impact ver­sus like­li­hood matrix charts and dis­cuss how to under­stand how lead­ing com­pa­nies are man­ag­ing risk in con­cert with their Agile trans­for­ma­tions and process.

Becom­ing a lean enter­prise requires the entire man­age­ment sys­tem to be aligned with lean prin­ci­ples. Lean requires align­ment with cus­tomers and takes direc­tion from the cus­tomer pull con­cept. Yet many orga­ni­za­tions con­tin­ue old prac­tices such as finan­cial bud­get­ing which are based on finan­cial ​“push” con­cepts. Sim­ply stat­ed, these old man­age­ment prac­tices defeat the abil­i­ty to become tru­ly lean.

Ron presents at the Print­ers and Imag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion Mid-Amer­i­ca meet­ing in Dal­las. Ron drew on Gem­ba Acad­e­my’s library and cre­at­ed a pre­sen­ta­tion on Prac­ti­cal Prob­lem Solv­ing and Quick Changeover with some fun, inter­ac­tive sim­u­la­tions to bring real world prob­lem-solv­ing into the classroom.

Qual­i­ty, Lean, and Six Sig­ma pro­fes­sion­als often need to ana­lyze data, cre­at­ing graphs and charts to per­form sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis. Learn how to use sim­ple prompts to per­form Sta­tis­ti­cal Analy­sis using Chat­G­PT Plus. This vir­tu­al sem­i­nar starts with the basics of using Chat­G­PT Plus for data analy­sis in an easy-to-under­stand way. Learn how to use this tool for sta­tis­ti­cal process con­trol (SPC) charts, his­tograms, box plots, t‑Tests, regres­sion, and more.