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In any company embarking on a lean transformation, in any industry, the definition of relevant and reliable information for analysis and decision-making will change in some form or fashion. A lean transformation also has an impact on the types and frequencies of analytical practices and accompanying decisions. Another way to say this is a lean transformation changes what internal customers value from a management accounting system. For any decision-maker, information must be both relevant and reliable. Relevant information improves decision makers’ capabilities to predict future outcomes or provide more accurate feedback of performance. Reliable information represents reality at the time an analysis is performed and the quality (accuracy) and lack of bias in the analysis can be counted on. In this webinar, you will learn: The Economics of Lean The relevant and reliable information needed to analyze the impact of lean and continuous improvement How to leverage lean for financial success Standardized work for analysis and decision-making   About Nick Katko Nick is President and owner of BMA. Since 2002, Nick and has leveraged his Lean Accounting experience and philosophy  in assisting BMA clients in developing, leading and coaching them in their Lean Accounting transformations. Clients Nick has served range […]

Professor Jeffrey Liker talks about his second edition of The Toyota way and its new model that puts scientific thinking at the center.  Practical scientific thinking focuses on treating each new improvement idea as a hypothesis to test in the direction of a clear goal.  He will explain how Toyota Production System experts teach this to develop people internally and when they teach outside companies.  And he discusses how you can invest in developing your people to continuously improve toward your most challenging goals.   About Jeff Liker Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Operations Engineering at The University of Michigan and President of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He is author of the best-selling book, The Toyota Way, Second Edition, and has coauthored nine other books about Toyota including The Toyota Way to Service Excellence, Designing the Future, and The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership.  A recent graphic novel with Eduardo Lander and Tom Root tells the story of lean transformation at a mail-order company:  Lean in a High-Variety Environment.  His articles and books have won thirteen Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence. He was inducted into the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame and the Shingo Academy.   […]

تعرف على كيفية تصميم خارطة طريق تحويلية لدفع الالتزام والإنسجام والعمل مع القادة. وقم باستخدامها لمساعدة مؤسستك على تجسيد ثقافة عالية الأداء لحل المشكلات. سيناقش وليد في الندوة: أهمية خارطة الطريق لدفع التحول الثقافي دور القادة ومسؤولي التغيير في بناء وتنفيذ خارطة الطريق  كيفية متابعة وتحديث خارطة الطريق والتعامل مع الأحداث الغير متوقعة نبذة عن وليد مازن متاز وليد مازن بخبرته التي تتجاوز 17 عامًا في مجال تدريب وتوجيه موظفي الشركات على كافة المستويات في النظام الإداري المبني على وقف الهدر، ويعتبر هذا النظام اختصاص ياباني يهدف إلى القضاء على الجوانب التي يضيع على أثرها الوقت والجهد والمال. وتشمل القطاعات التي قدم وليد الخدمات إليها تصنيع الأجهزة المنزلية، الأشغال المعدنية، الأغذية والمشروبات، الزجاج، البلاستيك، تخزين البضائع، بالإضافة إلى مختلف المنظمات الخدماتية والتعليمية. كما وعمل وليد في المملكة المتحدة والسويد والدنمارك وإيطاليا وألمانيا ورومانيا والمجر وبولندا ومصر والسعودية وقطر والامارات. يدير وليد مشاريع تدفع بعجلة التغيير وتسهل عملية التحسين في مجالات المشاريع المرشدة والتصنيع الرشيق ونشر السياسات وتطوير الصناعة الخالية من الهدر. وليد حاصل على درجة البكالوريوس في مجال هندسة النظم –الهندسة الصناعية من جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن في المملكة العربية السعودية، بالإضافة إلى درجة الماجستير التنفيذي في إدارة الأعمال من جامعة إمبريال كوليدج بالمملكة المتحدة. كما ويصنف من الأشخاص […]

Lean is best understood as a management system that does not work effectively if some parts of the system are missing. In this webinar the key practices of a Daily Management System are introduced and using Double-loop PDCA it will be explained how they work together to deliver sustainable improved performance.   About Anton Grutter Anton is a Lean Executive Coach. He has helped organisations to implement and institutionalise operational performance improvement in industry, commerce and in the justice and healthcare systems in South Africa for over 20 years. He has taught operations management at South African universities since 1993. Recently he has taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and as a visiting professor on the MBA programme at Shanghai University. His PhD research was on the effective implementation of shop-floor improvement teams. He has also written a textbook “Introduction to Operations Management” published by Heinemann in 2010.   Webinar   7:30 PM – 8:00 PM (Dubai Time) 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM (Riyadh Time) 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM (South Africa Time) Book Event

Brief Description: One of the greatest barriers to establishing a true culture of continuous improvement is that the leaders avoid spending time in the place where the value-add work is being done.  At the conclusion of our time together, participants will understand leader standard work and how this one tool can help them spend their time in the right place and at the right time.   About Patrick Adams Patrick is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, and professional speaker, best known for his unique human approach to sound team-building practices, creating consensus and enabling empowerment. He founded his consulting practice in 2018 to work with leaders at all levels and organizations of all sizes to achieve higher levels of performance. He motivates, inspires, and drives the right results at all points in business processes. Patrick has been delivering bottom-line results through specialized process improvement solutions for over 20 years. He’s worked with all types of businesses from private, non-profit, government, and manufacturing, ranging from small businesses to billion-dollar corporations. Patrick is an author of the best-selling book, Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap. Webinar   10:30 PM – 11:00 PM (Dubai Time) 9:30 PM – 10:00 PM (Riyadh Time) 2:30 PM […]

People often ask Karyn whether Lean, and Lean Leadership, are kind. In this webinar, Karyn will discuss concepts from her forthcoming book, The Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness, and how they help leaders take lean leadership to the next level: Kind Leadership.   About Karyn Ross Karyn is on a mission to Help People Create a Better, Kinder World. An artist, internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning author, consultant, coach and practitioner, Karyn travels the globe teaching people her unique system of combining creativity, continuous improvement and kindness to make a better world. As well as being the owner of KRC (Karyn Ross Consulting) Karyn is one of the Founding Mothers of Women in Lean – Our Table, a global group of more than seven hundred and fifty women lean practitioners. Karyn is also Founder and President of the Love and Kindness Project Foundation, a registered public charity and The New School for Kind Leaders. She has created both of these initiatives to help people around the world think, speak, act and lead more kindly. Karyn’s sixth book, The Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness will […]

  3 Days - 3 Focus Topics   Tune in to this inspiring and helpful series of sessions for you and your team. From Tuesday, April 27th to Thursday, April 29th we will meet every day same time: 18:00 Dubai, 17:00 Riyadh, 16:00 Cairo. ​ Each of the three days focuses on specific topis: April 27: How to develop a true Learning Organization, combining Agile & Lean, and Flow as a System April 28: How to develop Scientific Thinking and develop Leaders as Coaches April 29: The Dojo Day - Develop and scale world-class coaching skill in your organisation      What you will get at KATACON EU 2021 At KataCon Europe 2021 you can listen to selected keynotes, engage in deep-dive interviews with our keynote speakers, join the discussion on our panel of experts and step-up your coaching game in one of the hands-on Coaching Dojo sessions. In addition tune in to Kata Updates and learn from use-cases around the world. And what is going to a conference all about? Right. Networking. Wit our special networking platform you can to make use of the online nature of this event and connect with interesting people around the world. Conference   6:00 PM – 8:30 PM (Dubai […]

هل تعلم أن 90٪ من الرؤساء التنفيذيين ليسوا قادة بالفطرة في توجيه الموظفين بالقدوة؟ هل تعلم أن 40٪ فقط من جيل الألفية صنفوا برامج تطوير القيادة في شركاتهم على أنها "ممتازة"؟ وهل تعلم أن 70٪ من المنظمات تجد صعوبة في إنشاء برامج تنمية قيادية فعالة بسبب عدم مشاركة الإدارة العليا؟ لماذا توجد هذه الإحصائيات؟ ما الذي يمكن فعله لحل هذه المشكلات في عالمنا المعقد اليوم؟   نبذة عن خالد غراب خالد غراب هو مبسط للمؤسسين والرؤساء التنفيذيين والقادة في كيفية قيادة شركة متناغمة بحيث تتوسع في النمو. لأكثر من 12 عامًا ، عمل دوليًا مع قادة على استعداد لتعزيز قيادتهم وزيادة نجاحهم. كمدرب معتمد من اتحاد التدريب الدولي ، يجلب خالد ثروة من المعرفة والخبرة لعملائه. من المعالم البارزة في حياته المهنية عندما ساعد شركة على تجنب خطأ بقيمة 6.45 مليون دولار. وهو مسؤول أيضًا عن تصميم برامج القيادة والتسامح في جميع أنحاء الإمارات العربية المتحدة لوكلاء الهيئات الحكومية التي ساعدت في وضع وزارة التسامح والتعايش على الخريطة. Webinar   10:30 PM – 11:00 PM (Dubai Time) 9:30 PM – 10:00 PM (Riyadh Time) 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM (Cairo Time) Book Event

David will touch on the roots of servant leadership in the works of Robert K. Greenleaf and discuss how servant leadership offers practical lessons for leaders of small companies to large institutions.   About David McNamee  David McNamee, Ph.D. is an educator, executive-level consultant, leadership expert, U. S. Air Force veteran, and manager with documented success in public, private, domestic, and international sectors. David is also certified as an independent leadership and Strategic Planning coach, teacher and speaker with The John Maxwell Team. His primary areas of excellence include academic consulting research and writing focus on ethics, resilience, strategic planning, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Transformational Leadership. David also educates clients on his particular passion, Servant-Leadership.   David has served clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Whether leading micro-finance and leadership workshops in Haiti, negotiating strategic military agreements in far-flung countries, or leading Oregon’s largest MBA and undergraduate business programs, David’s success has come through his ability to build teams, quickly establish trust, and do whatever he can to empower those people to achieve greatness.   David has a BA in Communications, a master’s degree in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies. With his son Daniel McNamee, […]

I’m sure you’ve heard about the 5S’s in Lean.  Doing 5S helps people stay physically safe and allows problems to be easily seen.  But what about psychological safety?  If you want the people in your organization to learn, improve and care for your customers, you need to take care of their psychological safety just as much as you care for their physical safety.  That’s why Karyn Ross and Jessica House have created the 5C’s of psychological safety. During this interactive session, you will learn about each of the 5C’s and how you and your organization can begin practicing them immediately so that you can optimize learning, growth, innovation and improvement.  Everyone will receive a copy of the 5C’s document following the session.   About Jessica House With over a decade of experience in the mental health field, Jessica’s passion is helping children, parents, caregivers and families live their best lives.  She is the Founder of LightHouse Counselling and Wellness where she works collaboratively with her clients to bring out the best in them. She has a Masters in Counselling Psychology and spent many years working as a Child and Family Therapist at a local children's mental health centre in Ottawa where […]