Pierre Masai, Toyota Motor Europe

Hoshin Kanri literally means “Compass Management”. Its main purpose is to agree the direction at each level of the company in a way that leaves both latitude to operational units – IT included – to formulate their own plans, and to align them horizontally and vertically from the top company direction to the employees and back (“catchball process”). Pierre Masai will share insights and explain concretely how this process works at Toyota, including at the IT function he leads, but also the experiment he conducted to support the Hoshin process of any organization...

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...

Håkan Borglund, Toyota Material Handling...

Håkan Borglund is the CIO of Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE), which offers a full range of Toyota counterbalanced forklifts and BT warehouse equipment. Toyota Material Handling is the global leader in materials handling according to rankings by DHF, Logistics Journal and Modern Materials Handling. The challenge for many material handling customers is to optimize their truck fleets, improve the logistics processes and reduce the overall energy consumption. Håkan’s team has developed Toyota I_Site, which is improving safety, reducing cost and increasing...