We are delighted to announce the Lean Business System Annual Conference, which will take place on 18 October 2012. This event will provide delegates with inspiration, thought leadership, best practice, and networking opportunities.

The LBS Conference brings together our Industry Leaders Community to share fresh ideas, network with peers and help expand your learning to improve, leverage and sustain your Lean journey.

Set aside this day to invigorate and re-energise in a hub of experts, hear from thought leaders giving practical advice and a wealth of practitioners sharing their experiences from a range industry sectors. 

Through a blend of presentations and interactive sessions hosted by both industry and academic experts, you will leave empowered and enthused to create your Lean Business System for growth.

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Lean thinking is a business paradigm for continuous improvement and the relentless elimination of all types of waste. Sustainable development and ‘green thinking' are widely recognised as the new wave of innovation which is leading companies towards more innovative use of resources and waste free operations.It follows, therefore, that there needs to be a much more coordinated approach in managing ‘lean and green' within companies.

This workshop is an opportunity to learn from leading organisations that have realised synergies between lean and green and understand how to exploit lean concepts and tools to boost innovation for a greener and more profitable future for your business. There will be several case studies demonstrating how greener operations also boost competitiveness and make perfect business sense.

This event will explore the synergy between the 8 lean wastes and 8 green wastes and how lean and green initiatives can be integrated, for example, through the use of lean tools to diagnose waste. To consolidate the key concepts of Lean and Green thinking an innovative class room simulation will be conducted.

The event looks at how a full lean management approach can break down obstacles to Lean and Green improvement and bring about the ‘attitude change' that is required to sustain ‘behavioural change' in the long term.

Workshop Objectives:

•  To learn how leading companies become lean and green simultaneously
• To understand the benefits of a systematic combination of lean and green solutions
• To be introduced to tools, techniques and solutions developed for lean and green and their potential benefits

• To gain a deeper appreciation of why lean is green through case studies
• To start planning your lean and green business approach

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Over the last 20 years of our leading research, consultancy and training within the lean community we have found that the emphasis has moved away from questions like ‘Where do I start' and ‘How do I get trained in the tools'. In fact for companies some years into the journey the questions are now ‘Why am I not achieving as much as I hoped' and ‘How do I stop things stalling'.

The reason for this is that many have adopted the more visible parts of Lean such as the training and application of diagnostic and implementation Tools & Techniques. However, this has often been done in isolation of other key areas. In particular the People element of Lean has often been missed or at least underplayed.

This advanced workshop is for middle or senior managers who are seeing just these issues in their organisation. It helps you to understand how to correct this and start developing a Lean Culture.

We do this by helping understand what a complete Lean Business System involves and then importance of areas such as Strategy Deployment, Leadership, Engagement and Behaviour.  

What can you expect to get out of the course:

• Understand your existing culture & understand what culture is required to create a Lean Business System
• Identify the Lean Leadership development of Managers at all levels
• Discuss the '5 Dispositions' necessary to Lean Leadership & make preliminary assessments of Managers against them
• Design a process of development against the identified needs and in consideration of current Leadership development activity

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This workshop is also scheduled to take place in the UK, 10-11 May 2012