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KZN Lean Conference
30th September 2015 - 1st October 2015
R4500 – R5500
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Date: 30 September – 1 October 2015
Time: 08:00 – 17:00
Venue: Hilton College Theatre
Cost: R5,500 pp for 1-3 delegates, R5,000 pp for 4-6 delegates, R4,500 pp for 6 + delegates
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Pietermaritzburg & Midlands Chamber of Business (PMCB) in partnership with Training Leadership Consulting (TLC) are delighted to announce the 2015 KZN Lean Conference to be held at the Hilton College Theatre on the 30th September and the 1st October 2015. Lean Manufacturing/Lean Thinking is a Toyota Pioneered method to adopt world-class best practices in delivering value to customers, employees and the economy. The Lean work method focuses on getting the right things to the right place at the right time in the right quantity to achieve perfect work flow, while minimizing waste and being flexible and able to change to meet customer’s needs.
Inspired by the worldwide adoption of the Lean thinking philosophy and strategy for customer focus and operational efficiency, the appetite for Lean has grown in the South African Business community. By bringing in world-class, international speakers, The KZN Lean Conference is designed to inspire CEO’s and Business Leaders to adopt Lean as an operational excellence strategy, to lower costs, improve quality, shorten lead times and improve customer experience, while developing and empowering employees.
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
ART BYRNE & KRIS PEDERSON
Keynote speaker, Art Byrne, international author of The Lean Turnaround, will share his Lean Journey during his remarkable career where he has implemented Lean Principles in more than 30 companies in 14 countries during the past 30 years.
Art Byrne is an Operating Partner with J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies, where he leads the implementation of lean management at Childs’ portfolio companies. While serving as CEO or an equivalent position, Byrne implemented lean principles in more than 30 companies (including subsidiaries) and 14 countries during the past 30 years, giving him a matchless knowledge of how to turn around companies using a lean strategy. Byrne began his lean journey as general manager at the General Electric Company. Later, as group executive, he helped introduce lean to the Danaher Corporation. As CEO of The Wiremold Company he quadrupled the company size and increased its enterprise value by 2,500% in less than 10 years. Byrne holds a bachelors in economics from Boston College and an masters from Babson College. He also serves as a board member of the Shingo Prize.
Keynote speaker, Kris Pederson has 25 years of management consulting, auditing and financial analysis experience. She currently leads EY’s Strategic Transformation team within the Advisory Practice and is the Americas Leader for “Purpose Led” Transformation, a cross-EY, firm-wide priority offering. Kris is an expert in large scale transformation with skillsets including: strategy consulting, executive leadership/alignment, organizational change, organization design, value realization/financial engineering, and process/technology-driven transformation. Prior to EY, Kris was Vice President of Transformation within IBM’s Global Business Services organization where she managed external client strategic transformation programs and also led various internal IBM change efforts (Client Value Initiative, CIO redesign, etc). She had been a Management Consulting Partner at PriceWaterhouse, LLC, which was acquired by IBM in 2002. Earlier, Kris was a Consulting Manager with Gemini Consulting, and before that, an Internal Auditor for Consolidated Electrical Distributors. Industry focus includes high technology, consumer products, industrial products, retail, banking, automotive and telecommunication.
HIGHLIGHTS
Network with other dynamic Business Leaders and team members
Learn from the Lean experts
Breakaway sessions
Panel Discussion
Practical Lean Tools and more
Use this spend towards your B-BBEE skills development as informal training.
For full programme click here.
Official Hotel for Lean Congress – Protea Hotel Hilton – Special Rates
Single Rate – R1050.00 B & B
Double Rate – R1265.00 B & B
To book call – 033 343 3311
