Conference Information
Companies are expecting that investments made in lean strategies continue to bring dividends and clarity. Have these tactics stalled? How can the promise of lean be accelerated? Join the Manufacturing Performance Institute (MPI) and Infor in an evaluation of four ways to make the most of your investment in lean, take it to the next level or justify a refocused effort. This evaluation will examine the value of:
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Deploying a cohesive strategy
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Translating goals into functional targets
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Linking financial plans to operational plans
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Employing a system for transparency, direction, and execution
Find out how manufacturers can bridge the gap between their short-term and long-term improvement efforts to a better tomorrow as a true Lean organization. The target for a true lean organization is one that is highly focused on customers (delivering precisely what they want, when they want it, and how they want it) while driving costs out of operations through waste reduction and improved productivity.
Specific examples will be shared during this webcast that can help you prioritize your own to-do list, with emphasis on what can provide the biggest potential return on investment.
Speakers
Adrienne Selko
eMedia Editor
IndustryWeek
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S. based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to that she ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a bachelor's of business administration from the University of Michigan.
John R. Brandt
CEO and Founder
Manufacturing Performance Institute
CEO and Founder of MPI, Brandt has spent more than two decades studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. An expert on how companies and communities can adapt themselves to the realities of new markets, new corporate structures, and new customer expectations, he is an accomplished leadership and management innovator, with a broad array of interests and responsibilities spanning his interests in management, technology and journalism.
Brandt combines two decades of experience in marketing, management, and consulting with a passion for journalism that has earned him more than 20 awards for reporting, writing, and editing. Most recently he served as President, Publisher and Editorial Director of the Chief Executive Group, publisher of Chief Executive, where his leadership transformed it from an also-ran into one of publishing's most surprising comebacks.
Brandt is also an internationally recognized expert on management and technology. With representation by The Leigh Bureau, he lectures frequently in U.S. and abroad on topics including The New Shape of Customer Value, Leadership in the New Economy, Mobile Commerce, Management Best Practices, Economic Outlook, Building World-Class Communities, and Manufacturing Strategies for the New Millennium.
Christina McKeon
Director, Performance Management Solutions
Infor
Christina McKeon drives Infor's global performance management strategy. McKeon has over 15 years of marketing experience including managing product marketing initiatives at SAS covering business intelligence and analytics markets. McKeon also served as marketing director for a software development tools provider and a wireless company. McKeon has spoken to IT and business audiences on performance management, business intelligence and analytics at industry conferences including TDWI and APICS. McKeon holds a bachelor's in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
John Colbert
Vice President, Research and Analysis
BPM Partners
John Colbert is responsible for gathering and reviewing industry and vendor specific data for utilization in service products and alliance programs for BPM Partners. Prior to BPM Partners, Colbert was senior director at Hyperion Software. He currently serves as the coordinator and spokesperson for the BPM Standards Group