Mike Orzen, Mike Orzen & Associates, Inc.

Mike Orzen, Mike Orzen & Associates...

Mike will run a pre-conference masterclass: “Building Your Lean IT Roadmap” on 13 March and present “Lean IT, DevOps & Agile – Learnings from Nationwide” Six years ago, Nationwide (an insurance and financial services company with US$26 billion in annual revenues) embarked on building industry leading software engineering capabilities. Their lean journey has enabled and engaged their 9,000+ person IT organization to deliver great solutions to customers and partners with ever-increasing levels of quality. In this session, we’ll explore the...
Takashi Tanaka, Dassault Systemes

Takashi Tanaka, Dassault Systemes

While working for Toyota Engineering Co., Takashi Tanaka implemented many TMS (Toyota Management System) tools at various industries, not only automobile but also airplane, mobile phone, fashion, design studio, chemical and medicine. When he worked with Boeing Company, Takashi noticed the need for digital Oobeya for global product development. Since he joined Dassault System, he has been developing not only Digital Oobeya, but also digital formatted Cost planning and Quality into process for embedded software development. Lean cost planning by Takashi Tanaka at the...
Steve Bell, Lean IT Strategies

Steve Bell, Lean IT Strategies

The New Frontier of Lean: The Digital Lean Enterprise In his talk, Steve will help leaders cut through the complexity and hype to focus on the three, key value-enablers of Digitization and Big Data, supporting informed strategy and execution to help large, established enterprises thrive in the digital-disruptor economy. On March 16, Steve and Karen will lead a masterclass, guiding participants in the development of an action plan tailored to their enterprise, to focus, leverage and scale key value-adding Digitization and Big Data analytics efforts aligned to their...
Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

Author and Speaker, Michael is associate researcher at Telecom ParisTech, and holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Social Sciences and Knowledge Sciences. He has written several books and articles about the links between knowledge and management and more recently, co-authored two business novels published by the Lean Enterprise Institute, one about lean turnaround, “The Gold Mine” and one about lean transformation, “The Lean Manager”. He was awarded the Shingo Prize for both of them. More recently, he published “The Lean Management”...
Daniel Jones, Lean Enterprise Academy

Daniel Jones, Lean Enterprise Academy

      Biography: Founder and Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy in the U.K., Daniel T. Jones is a senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, management thought leader, and mentor on applying lean process thinking to every type of business. Daniel Jones is the author, with James P. Womack, of the influential and popular management books that describe the principles and practice of lean thinking in production. These include: The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your...