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Thursday, February 12, 2009 -
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Despite being around for decades, most manufacturers have still not implemented Lean effectively throughout their organizations. With current economic conditions, the importance of cutting costs and improving customer service, Lean is the vehicle to accelerate you past your competitors. Hear manufacturing guru John Brandt and panelists across the manufacturing industry have a frank discussion on how companies can use Lean methodology with supporting business systems for fast, bottom-line results.
View Your New Year's Resolution: Embracing Lean, an IndustryWeek-hosted on-demand event, and you'll learn:
- Why Lean is a must-have business initiative in this economic crisis
- How to forecast which improvements Lean can add to your bottom line and uncover growth
- Five low-cost Lean initiatives companies can do today to achieve large returns
- Top mistakes companies make in going Lean and how to avoid them
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how your company can leverage Lean processes and systems right away!
Speakers Adrienne Selko
eMedia Editor
IndustryWeek
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S. based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to that she ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a bachelor's of business administration from the University of Michigan.
 John R. Brandt
CEO and Founder
Manufacturing Performance Institute
CEO and Founder of MPI, Brandt has spent more than two decades studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. An expert on how companies and communities can adapt themselves to the realities of new markets, new corporate structures, and new customer expectations, he is an accomplished leadership and management innovator, with a broad array of interests and responsibilities spanning his interests in management, technology and journalism.
Brandt combines two decades of experience in marketing, management, and consulting with a passion for journalism that has earned him more than 20 awards for reporting, writing, and editing. Most recently he served as President, Publisher and Editorial Director of the Chief Executive Group, publisher of Chief Executive, where his leadership transformed it from an also-ran into one of publishing's most surprising comebacks.
Brandt is also an internationally recognized expert on management and technology. With representation by The Leigh Bureau, he lectures frequently in U.S. and abroad on topics including The New Shape of Customer Value, Leadership in the New Economy, Mobile Commerce, Management Best Practices, Economic Outlook, Building World-Class Communities, and Manufacturing Strategies for the New Millennium.
Jeffrey Wilson
Director IT
Bowles Fluidics Corporation
Robert Buccigrossi
Production Manager
PT Tech Inc.
Rick Reed
Director of Continuous Improvement
WIKA Instrument Corporation
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