LAI's EVSMA Event At Robins ALC Makes Front-Page News

LAI's recent Event Value Stream Mapping Analysis (EVSMA) event at Robins ALC made front-page headlines in the center's weekly newspaper, Robins Rev Up.

In an article entitled "Center sets course to dominate sustainment", the joint effort by LAI and Simpler Consulting (which originated in 1999 as a much smaller project) to map the center's current and desired future states received glowing reviews from participants in the complex transformation.A key milestone was the definition of this future state. As LAI's co-director, Professor Debbie Nightingale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology noted: "This is a statement of where you want to be 10 years from now that is realistic enough that people understand it, yet bold enough so that people gasp when they see it.” The center's goal in simple terms? “Be America’s dominant air and space power sustainer by 2015.”

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