Focus Clinic:
Empowering People for Lean
Presented by: Larry Baker
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Because a Lean Transformation is totally dependent upon the involvement
and dedication of all employees in the organization, this session will focus
on how to get each employee to embrace a “continuous improvement”
philosophy. Empowering employees with that new responsibility can be a
dramatic culture shift and is a long-term journey. Participants will learn
successful ways to empower employees to implement flow, identify and remove
waste, and increase value to the customer in the areas of quality, cost, and
delivery.
This session will cover some basic lean implementation tools, such as using
the PDCA problem-solving process, team kaizen events, and systems thinking.
By using these basic “building blocks,” participants will also learn how to
lead a natural progression from thinking lean to living lean by empowering
and energizing their workforce to accomplish their lean objectives.
Larry Baker
Larry Baker is a Virginia Tech graduate in Management Science and has
over 20 years of experience in manufacturing specifically textiles and
plastic injection molding. His professional career includes Industrial
Engineer, Manufacturing Manager, and Corporate Value Management Director for
a Fortune 100 company. Larry coordinated Lean Systems implementation among
120 facilities with the corporation. His Lean education includes: Kaizen
Institute, Nissan, TBM, Ford, Auto Alliance. He has facilitated over 150
Kaizen workshops and has also championed a plant Six Sigma initiative.
Currently, Larry is a Coordinator of Business and Industry Training with
Lord Fairfax Community College’s Workforce Solutions and Continuing
Education and is a Lean Systems Consultant. Larry has assisted several local
companies in the Lean implementation challenge.
