Innovation Through Continuous Improvement during the Pandemic

• This registration entitles you as a member of the Michigan Lean Consortium to attend a discounted all day workshop that will include 2 separate active learning sessions of your choice.
• Please register for your sessions in advance.

• This registration entitles you to attend an all day workshop that will include 2 separate active learning sessions of your choice.
• Please register for your sessions in advance.
• If you are interested in a MLC membership please contact the event coordinator.

• This registration entitles you as a member of the Michigan Lean Consortium signing up in a group of 3 or more to attend a discounted all day workshop that will include 2 separate active learning sessions of your choice.
• Please register for your sessions in advance.

• This registration entitles you to attend an all day workshop that will include 3 separate active learning sessions of your choice.
• Please register for your sessions in advance. Seating is limited.
• If you are interested in MLC membership please contact the event coordinator.
• If you are registering for this event as a student you must present a valid student ID during check in. You must be enrolled in school as a full time student.
• Note: Go and See experience is an additional cost.

Participants that choose this workshop will be introduced to the A3 Process and it’s multiple uses: as a storyboard, problem solving tool, reporting mechanism, management tool and finally as a continuous improvement mindset.

This workshop will focus on how a crisis can bring innovation to the front line and how success in this new virtual world using no cost/low cost solutions is so important. The material will cover how to set yourself and your customer up for success in a workshop format.

This will be a discussion and workshop about Lean education with a comparison to quick response manufacturing (QRM). There will also be an interactive Lean simulation as part of this session. This session will appeal to students and educators.

This workshop will illustrate the concepts of Lean to identify where we are in a business cycle. the outcome is to teach the participants that they can use Lean concepts to identify their objectives in wealth planning for their future. This workshop will especially appeal to Engineers/ CFO's and business people.

Most of us have heard about and applied lean and six sigma methodologies. They have certainly been proven to show significant improvement to organizations within many different industries, but why have we allowed ourselves to create such complexity around these strategies? Patrick will discuss, with many examples, where lean implementation has not been fully adopted due to a complex delivery of the concepts. As a simple man himself, Patrick want to bring lean back to the basics. He believes these three words should describe every organizations lean journey: Simple. Visual. Continuous. By breaking down these three elements and applying them to your organization, Patrick believes you can have sustained success in your lean journey. With many examples of successful and sustained implementation, Patrick will deliver the key to sustainable change in every organization.

Lean Basic to Intermediate Learning

The participants will learn the correlation between principles, systems, results and culture through real COVID-19 health care examples.This will appeal to Lean change agents who are intermediate to expert level.

1. Understanding of the definition of empathy, common misconceptions, and why it is vital to your organization culture. 

2. Understanding the preparedness of your organization for times of crisis through a lens of empathy.

3. Ability to develop daily empathy practices and a valuable customer feedback process.

4. Use of empathy to test assumptions, increase empowerment of all customers, and generate successful solutions, even during challenging times. 

This will appeal to all audience levels