The Leaning Edge

Laura Kempf's latest project gave her insight to the most important tool lean practitioners have, which is “bringing people together”. Lean events do that very well and in a company where people have come together from various backgrounds, experiences, acquired companies and so forth, just agreeing on how to work together is a huge improvement in itself.

The Leaning Edge Consortium recently launched at program at the WH level focused around improving the way we work together across Watson Health. I remember when lean first came to our company and executives would ponder why it took a lean event to get employees to think of the improvement. The truth of it is that the lean event allows the team to take a step back, analyze the issue and make the improvement. Our greatest tool as facilitators is bridging the gap in allowing employees to work together.

MBN's Jeffrey Mosher headed down to Troy Michigan at Automation Alley for Michigan Lean Consortium's Year End Event & Networking Reception.

The speakers on the day included Thomas H. Dunham - AECOM Performance Improvement Manager for Nuclear Engineering Design and Modification team, Heather Toppen - Lean Coach , Sarah Kolekamp -enior Process Excellence Consultant with Mercy Health, and Joe Augustyn - Lean Expert.

The Leaning Edge welcomes Romell Green of MDHHS (OWDT) to talk about his experiences with the 7th Annual Michigan Lean Consortium Conference up in Traverse City back in August, and in depth his take-aways from participating in Friday's extra Leadership Track experience.

The Leaning Edge welcomes Phil Garber the Training Coordinator at OMT-Veyhl to talk about how LEAN is a culture change not a one-step solution.

The Leaning Edge welcomes Richard Love, Founder, HarborView LLC to talk about the Michigan Lean Consortium Conference, 5S for Data.

The Leaning Edge welcomes Paul Critchley President, New England Lean Consulting to talk about how big sustainable changes come from the little things along the way.

The Leaning Edge welcomes Eric Shumaker Senior Project Mgr at George W. Auch Company to talk about how Auch uses Lean as a practice for Pre-Construction and Construction.

While in Traverse City Michigan, at the Michigan Lean Consortium's 7th Annual Conference - 'Achieving True North: LEAD-ENGAGE-ACCELERATE-NOW; Debra Levantrosser host of MBN's The Leaning Edge speaks with Raymond Muscat, Industry Director for the Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan.

They discuss how lean practices are being used to create cultural change in a organization.

Debra talks with Dan Rinehart, CI/QA Specialist, Britten Studios. They talk about linking vision, plan, and people. 

Debra talks with Jeff Fuchs, Executive Director, Maryland World Class Consortia, about public and private sector lean transformation.

He will be a morning Keynote Speaker Wednesday August 2nd for the 2017 Michigan Lean Consortium Annual Conference; Finding True North:Lead, Engage, Accelerate, Now! Here is a bit about Jeff: