Talking Lean E-News:
Lean Success Story update:
Algonquin College Continues its
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The Algonquin College Lean effort, which began in 2005, continues to make inroads resulting in maximizing outreach without increasing wait times.
Last year, Talking Lean E-News related how a Lean team had streamlined the College's counseling department. Since then, that initiative has been expanded to the group's external activities, which include classroom talks and team-building sessions.
The new phase was initiated to help counselors balance their external activities with their personal counseling workload.
"It's a matter of synchronization" says Chuck Doyle, the College's Manager of Business Process Review. "You don't want to be teaching in a classroom or advertising your services when there's a high demand for face-to-face sit-downs."
An improvement team collected and analyzed data to gain a better understanding of demand patterns. This has allowed the department to maximize their outreach activities without increasing wait times for face-to-face sessions....Read More
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Larry Cote to present at APICS- AGM May 2012
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Lean Advisors is pleased to announce that Larry Cote, President will be the keynote speaker at the APICS AGM event on May 29th, 2012.
Larry will be exploring the topic:
Evolution of Lean- Over 20 years, what have we learned?
APICS is a non profit organization created to educate and facilitate growth in the field of Operations and Supply Chain Management.
APICS is best known for its two certification programs, CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) and CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional). These two certifications have become the global industry standard and are based on contributions from the membership.
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