Friday May 30th, 2008

SPEAKER:
Chuck Doyle, Senior Advisor with Lean Advisors (www.leanadvisors.com)

Chuck Doyle is currently a Senior Advisor with Lean Advisors and is responsible for training and coaching companies in their Lean journey. He has been working in this position for the last 7 years and also teaches a course in Lean Principles to the 3rd year supply chain management students at Algonquin College. Some of his clients include Five Hills Health Region, the Mayo Clinic, SAMA, 3M, Irving, Mountain Equipment, the Royal Canadian Mint and the Clinical Labs of Hawaii. Lean Advisors has been a pioneer in the implementation of the Lean Principles in the areas of healthcare and office environments. Prior to this he was National Director of Business Improvement with Canada Post Corporation. It was at Canada Post where he first became involve with the implementation of Lean. He has working in Quality for 27 years in both the public and private sectors. He is originally from Winnipeg and now lives in Ottawa.  

Lean is the name used to describe the Toyota Production System. Originally used to help improve the efficiency and productivity of high volume manufacturing, lean is now being applied in service industries and low volume high mix environments. Lean can be applied anywhere you have processes; some examples from the office where it has been applied are payroll, request for approvals, request for payments, payment and quoting. When applied correctly the Lean process will transform companies so that the workers, the company and the customer will all benefit. The proper application of Lean principles and tools will return double digit percent improvements in key metrics such as productivity, inventory turns, lead times and the bottom line. The application of Lean has many opportunities for the financial community, from the impact on the bottom line to the application of Lean in their own business processes

This workshop will be of interest to financial managers and others at other levels of government who wish to learn about  “Lean”