Events Past Annual Meetings 2008 LAI Annual Meeting

Lean Enterprise Transformation 2008

Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at MIT Conference

Lean Enterprise Transformation 2008

April 22-24, 2008

Hyatt Harborside, Boston

Join the Lean Advancement Initiative at MIT along with government and industry leaders for Lean Enterprise Transformation 2008 April 22-24 in Boston.  

The agenda emphasizes how lean thinking drives innovation across the enterprise.

Highlights will include:

Keynote speaker Prof. Jody Hoffer Gittell, the Heller School, Brandeis University, will discuss enterprise transformation and her book, The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships To Achieve High Performance.

Distinguished Panel on Lean Six Sigma Deployment in the Department of Defense moderated by Elizabeth McGrath, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  This panel will feature Ronald Rezek, Business Transformation, Office of the Secretary of the Army, James Brice, Director Task Force Lean (TFL), Department of the Navy, and Dr. Ronald Ritter, Special Assistant for Air Force Smart Operations to the Secretary of the Air Force, and Deputy Director of the Air Force Smart Operations Office 

Breakout sessions addressing:

  • Architecting Collaborative Supplier Networks
  • Hearts and Minds: Engineering and Professional Employee Engagement
  • IT-Enabled Transformation
  • Mini course: How to Measure Anything 
  • Enterprise Performance Measurement
  • Pushing the Enterprise Modeling Envelope
  • Mini course on Making Difficult Conversations Productive
  • Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering
  • Linking Lean Thinking to Education
  • Mini course on Developing Capabilities for Lean Enterprise Change