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Lean Learning Center Alumni Forum

This unique event is designed to bring together executives and leaders from companies that are embarking on a lean transformation.

Through this exclusive 3-day event you will gain:

• Insights from others who Lead Lean
• Solutions to some of your most challenging problems
• Best practices which you can apply for results immediately
• Leadership lessons that will help you accelerate your efforts

During this 3-day Alumni Forum you will:

• Be able to share your successes and barriers, and get feedback from other Lean Leaders through structured presentations and feedback
• Explore the lessons learned from the collective experience of many companies and their roadmaps
• Discuss issues of Lean Leadership with experts in the field
• Re-experience the powerful lessons of 'The Airplane Game' through a new exercise 'The Candy Factory,' and relate those lessons to your own journeys

Program Highlights:

Lessons Learned

The Lean Learning Center's Roadmap for Lean Transformation has helped many companies more effectively execute their own journeys through the complex terrain of change. During this activity, you will look back into your own experiences in mixed groups of company representatives and create a living history of successes, barriers and lessons learned to date.

The 5 Phases of the Roadmap will provide a common template to capture these lessons and share them. These lessons will be used to explore your own plans moving forward for greater success.

The Candy Factory

When people work through the Airplane Factory simulation in the Lean Experience, there is a very strong connection to the learning of Lean Rules and Principles and most importantly, their successful application in a real process environment. Enjoy those light bulbs and epiphanies through the Airplane Factory's cousin, the Candy Factory. The Candy Factory has all the complexity, enjoyment and deep lessons that you can re-experience and gain useful new insights having had more practice, knowledge and skill applying lean in your own organization.

Benchmarking Successes and Barriers

Every company experiences some success, some problems, and some chances to innovate. In this activity, you will get to share your biggest success, your largest remaining barrier for progress, and some innovations unique to your journey that others may benefit from. Each company participating will present their stories in these categories through a structured process. As audience members, you will gain applicable ideas and knowledge; as presenters, you will receive structured feedback and suggestions on your journey from each fellow participant. This is an accelerated benchmarking tour.

Barrier Busting Case Studies

A few real case studies of significant but common barriers in the lean transformation journey will be shared; these will be explored by teams, and recommendations will be made on ways to bust through barriers. Barriers chosen will be generally universal in appeal, but based on the details of real-life stories for deep engagement with the program. You will participate in both the generation of ideas and the sharing of them, and if your company is chosen for one of the case studies, you will gain direct ideas of how to continue moving forward.

To learn more about the Alumni forum, or inquire when the next such event is to take place, contact the Lean Learning Center.