Richard Mathis, MEI

After 7 years as a software architect, Richard became the manager of the recognition software department at MEI. For 4 years Richard has been applying Lean principles to the department’s current activities. Richard’s presentation covers the significant challenges and successes at increasing productivity when faced with substantial growth expectations. See the session about Doubling the output of the team and still freeing up resources for the future Back to list of...

Oscar Perez Prieto, GE Healthcare

Oscar Perez Prieto is Experienced Process Excellence Leader with ten years of experience in the application of continuous improvement tools in both manufacturing and transactional processes. Certified as Black Belt by the Juran Institute, Oscar is currently a Lean Leader within the General Electric Health Care (GEHC) Organization. He is currently involved in the deployment of extensive CRM solutions across Europe and EAGM. As pivotal member of IT and Process Excellence Oscar is responsible for making sure the business processes are streamlined before digitalization. His...

Yves Caseau, AXA

Lean Startup as the innovation engine for the Digital Agency at AXA AXA’s Digital Agency is a recent offspring of AXA digital strategy, whose purpose is to deliver innovative services to both AXA customers and prospects, in 55 countries. To ensure that their mobile and web applications bring true statisfaction to their users, the Digital Agency follows the Lean Startup methods from Eric Ries, with numerous insights that may be found in “Running Lean” (Ash Maurya) or “The Lean Enterprise” (Trevor Owens & Obie Fernandez). The goal is to...

Khuloud Odeh, Urban Institute

The power of Lean to modernize mission-driven organizations What can Lean teach us about the improvement of non-profit business processes? In 2014, The Urban Institute, the Social & Economic Policy Research Center based in Washington DC in the US, turned to Lean to help modernize organizational processes from the inside out, beginning with their grant and contract proposal development process. Responding to requests for proposals is the primary method for Urban to obtain new projects and funding, and it was identified by 68% of surveyed staff as being challenging,...