Silver Sponsors: Sponsors Sending Ten (10) or more Attendees

Bronze Sponsors: Sponsors Sending Five (5) or more Attendees

Gold Sponsors: Sponsors Sending Ten  (10) or more Attendees and
sponsoring Kaizen Programs currently.

LEAN BEYOND THE FACTORY SYMPOSIUM
 
Some of the Working Sessions and Dinners Will Be Held at:

Westin City Center
1400 M Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005

Day One

Introduction – (8:00 a.m.)

I. Basics of Lean, A Short Introductory Course: (8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.)

• What is Lean?
• Making Lean Work Through Hoshin Kanri/Policy
• Creating Culture Change; Change Management to Drive Lean
• Lean Transformation; Lean Enterprise
• Using Lean to  Enhance Customer or Patient Satisfaction
• Competing Successfully with Time & Velocity
• Business & Growth Strategy/Lean Business Systems

II. Break at 10:00 a.m.

III. Basics of Lean, A Short Introductory Course: Lean Principles and Lean in the Supply Chain (10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.)

IV. Application of Lean to Complex Situations: It Even Works in Building One of the World's Most Complex Machines: An Airplane. Lean Experiences at Boeing and Airbus—- Airbus, Boeing and Other Experts (TBD)

V. Luncheon and Luncheon Speaker Panel (12:00 Noon to 2:00 p.m.)

• Can Lean Really Be Applied to Health Care? Pros and Cons to Be Discussed. Isn't Health Care Really an Art and Lean Just Does Not Apply? Lean is Something for Engineers Not Health Care Professionals?
• Introduction and Moderator
• Outside Speakers from Leading Hospital Management Who Have Implemented Lean; Leader of Union Representing Health Care Workers; A Leading Critic of Lean in Health Care; Government Officials and Think Tank Leaders

VI. Digging Deeper on Making Lean Work Through Hoshin Kanri/Policiy and Dealing with Culture and Change Management in a Hospital: Detailing A Recent Hospital System's Six Month Experiment in Lean (2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

• Identifying where resources are spent in a Hospital
• Identifying the Eight (8) Wastes in Hospitals
• Improving the Process to Eliminate Waste at a Hospital
• Visual Workplace (5S)
• Our Experiences Through Six Kaizen Exercises

VII. Real World Group Activities: A Lean Simulation – Applying Lean to Hospitals: An MBA Case Format to Be Lead By Course Faculty and Executive with Experience Implementing Lean (3:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Assisted By Lean Masters

Day Two

IX. Break Out Sessions or Dinners on Lean and the Patient: Lean Patient Service

• Introduction & Framework
• Lean Nursing – Speaker from Group that Trains Nurses in Lean
• Lean in the Operating Room – Surgeon Who Has Applied Lean to His Operating Room
• Financial/Quantitative Measurements for Managing Patient Satisfaction
• Customer (Patient) Service Centers/Administrative Functions in Hospitals and Lean

X. Real Accounting: Don't Let Traditional Accounting Impede Your Lean Growth Strategy

XI. Lean M&A and Hospitals: Break Out Session to Discuss the Use of Lean in M&A and M&A Integration for those Hospitals Seeking to Grow through Acquisitions

XII. Lean Experiences of Leading CEOs: Break Out Sessions Led by General Managers and CEOs who have actually run companies that have gone through the lean transformations

XIII. Government's View of Lean Health Care: Session and Panel of Government Officials and Critics of the Governments Approach

This Symposium is By Invitation Only

* You will need an invitation code to register. Send us an email by clicking here for details and an invitation code.

*Registration Fee: Details Provided in Invitation Materials.

Symposium Location: Westin City Center 1400 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 2005 (202) 429-1700

Hotel information: To receive a discount on your hotel stay please contact us for a SET number.

Evening Entertainment: Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Avenue Washington, D.C. (202) 337-4141

"Now THIS is a jazz club." – Dizzy Gillespie  

*GrowthPhases ® Alliance reserves the right to cancel the 2011 Washington Growth Symposium: Lean Beyond the Factory Floor for Health Care by returning any registration fee paid.