The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
Guest Speaker:
Prof. John Bicheno
Topic: The Future of Lean – Join us for a deep dive into what the future of Lean looks like with one of the founders of Lean Thinking in Europe – John Bicheno. Author of Human Lean a Shingo Award winning amongst other leading publications – most well-known being The Lean Toolbox
About John Bicheno
John is the founding Director of MSc in Lean Operations, Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), 1999-2012. During his period at LERC he supervised over 80 Masters dissertations.
He has been a Shingo examiner. In 2013 he joined the APICS CPIM ECO certification committee. On the Buckingham University MSc Lean Leadership website, a continually updated list of ‘Bicheno’s 100 Top Books on Lean’ is maintained. This site attracts several hundred hits every month. He has been a mentor to numerous organisations
He has been a regular participant on programmes at University of Witwatersrand, Vlerick School of Management, Swansea University, The Manufacturing Institute, Antwerp School of Management, PLAN (Sweden), and Effektivitet (Denmark).
He is an enthusiastic participant and speaker at the European Lean Educator (ELEC) annual conferences since their inception in 2014. In 2016 the ELEC conference was held in Buckingham.
