Lean Times

7th Annual WIT Lean Enterprise Excellence Forum

Paul Harding delivers his presentation in Waterford IT

A number of staff from JEG recently attended this annual Lean event hosted by Darrin Taylor in Waterford IT. The event seems to grow in stature within the Lean community each year and this one certainly did not disappoint.

The forum keynote speaker was Prof. Peter Hines who as usual gave a masterclass in how to present to a large audience without losing the attention of anyone there.

Peter’s new book (co-authored by Chris Butterworth) “The Essence of Excellence” was the topic of his talk and has recently been awarded the Shingo Institute Publication award.

Following on from the main forum, each attendee chose to attend four out of the series of twenty four separate presentations over the course of the day.

Our own Paul Harding presented on “What factors may inhibit implementation of Lean in a large construction organisation”.

This is the subject he based his thesis on for his recently completed masters degree in UL in Programme and Project Management.

Paul was given an introduction by Ray Curley (above) and Ray also answered questions later in the day as a member of the Forum Plenary panel.