We need your inspiration for planning the contents of future workshops – and for the TWI/Kata conference in 2015. Join us for an afternoon of networking, interaction, and discussions on Lean topics:

AGENDA

  • Lunch
  • Presentation of Kopenhagen Fur and their Lean/TWI journey
  • Networking
  • Jim Huntzinger: Looking Forward by Looking Back
  • Workshop/Brainstorming on Lean topics – your needs and ideas

Date/time: 9 October 2014, 12:00 – 16:00
Location: Kopenhagen Fur, Langagervej 60, 2600 Glostrup
Cost: FREE (Space is limited)

Looking Forward by Looking Backward: TWI and Kata

In our journey toward becoming a lean enterprise, we have come to understand that developing a lean organization is not just about learning and implementing lean tools; but, in fact, that culture is critical and key to a successful endeavor.
What are the foundational behaviors that allow an organization to create a culture to, not only support the lean enterprise, but nourish a lean organization at a sustainable level?
In this overview Jim Huntzinger will discuss the benefit of learning from the past and how it is relevant to business today. Also, how it impacts all functions in an organization.
Training Within Industry (TWI) and Kata are foundational skills and behaviors which can help transform our people and, in turn, create a learning organization. These skills have remained a simple but powerful set of methods which enable people to drive improvement at an accelerated pace.
Understanding the foundation to building problem-solving at the most basic level helps to create an environment which people thrive solving daily problems. By using the scientific method to develop knowledge it can be leveraged as a natural process to improve business and industry.
Looking Forward by Looking Backward will explain the framework of the purpose for learning the “target condition” as you move along your journey to becoming a lean enterprise.
Jim Huntzinger.

Jim Huntzinger

Jim Huntzinger is an experienced Lean practitioner, but also a curious engineer and researcher, who worked to re-deploy TWI (Training Within Industry) and uncovered its tie with the Toyota Way. One of the outcomes was the ground breaking article Roots of Lean – Training Within Industry: The Origin of Kaizen. He is now working on the deep history of Ford’s Highland Park plant and its direct tie to Toyota’s business model and methods of operation.
Jim’s company Lean Frontiers arranges conferences, and workshops covering Lean Accounting, TWI, Kata, Lean HR, Lean Product & Process Development, Lean Coaching, and Lean IT – with the world’s top lean thought leaders and practitioners.