I am honored to be asked to speak at Congress
for Progress and hope to instigate some powerful discussion on the technical
and social ramifications of overhauling North American organizations and
operations in order to meet the demands of international competition.
Topics will include:
- What do I see as the major stumbling blocks in sustaining
competitive gains, and what do I propose as solutions?
- What are kaizen and lean transformation as I’ve seen
successfully applied in principle, practice and policy?
- How do various lean tools work before, during and after kaizen
events?
- What are the social and technical pre-requisites for success?
- What to the results look like?
- How does lean/kaizen apply to not-for-profit organizations?
- How do standard work and level-loading apply in office
processes?
Mary Pat Cooper
Author of the KAIZEN SKETCHBOOK, scheduled for release spring 2008,
Marypat Cooper is a senior management consultant with Moffitt Associates and
currently the lead consultant on lean transformation for a national
healthcare corporation. Additional industries served over the last four
years with Moffitt Associates include global paper products manufacturing,
international finished construction materials, software development and
aerospace.
Previous to her current position, Marypat led process revolution at Brooks
Electronics Division of The Wiremold Company for over 14 years in
Production, Quality and Human Resources. Sent to Japan twice for work/study,
Marypat worked as lead kaizen promotion officer, hoshin leader and internal
consultant for The Wiremold Company across the United States, Canada and
Europe.
Her efforts to fully integrate kaizen and continuous improvement throughout
various corporate functions resulted in record-breaking productivity and
profit gains. She has led teams to successfully overhaul pay systems,
product families, supply chains, equipment design and information flow
systems to profitably delight customers. Marypat has created and published
workshops, handbooks and training simulations to initiate and sustain a
corporate culture of lean enterprise.
Marypat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies from the
University of Wisconsin. Her direct professional teachers include Dr. W.
Edwards Deming, Art Byrne, Gary Brooks and Chirhiro Nakao. Marypat’s efforts
have been acknowledged in Lean Thinking by Jim Womack and Daniel Jones, and
Who’s Counting by Jerry Solomon. She was recently recognized for her
contribution to the development of Lean Certification by SME, Shingo Prize
and AME. She continues to volunteer for various lean organizations in the
United States and lives near Philadelphia with her husband and youngest of
three children
