Thursday, July 11, 2024 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Robert Snyder, Director Sales Force Effectiveness and Founder at TransUnion and Innovation Elegance – Innovation Elegance: What A People-Centric Methodology Looks Like

Innovation has had two decades of software-centric methodologies. Project success rates are not great. The employee experience is not great. What makes innovation difficult is not software, so this should be no surprise. What makes innovation difficult are people – how we interact, collaborate, and compete with each other. Therefore, a people-centric methodology is not revolutionary. It’s just overdue. Your code will be just fine.

This session explains how small changes to three well-known references form the recipe for a people-centric methodology. These changes raise a team’s discipline and empathy, simplify messy project plans, and convert your organization’s communication traffic jams into a symphony.

Takeaways

• How to improve on the RACI and structure a team into a healthy rhythm of durable decisions
• Thoughtful templates are small hinges that swing large doors (of culture)
• How the performing arts give you a collaborative advantage

Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. Robert’s thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He’s performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles.

Robert is publishing a series of books on methodology. “Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace” became available January 1, and “Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy” expects to launch in May of 2024.

Ernesto Gutiérrez, Innovation Management at Swedish National Space Agency – The Gap Between Theory and Practice in Innovation Management

This presentation covers some important aspects of innovation that, despite being known, are still difficult to be understood, taken into account or managed. Ernesto will present some examples of how this gap between theory and practice manifests from his professional experience from firms, academic innovation offices and national innovation agencies. He will also present questions to discuss with the audience.

Ernesto Gutiérrez is a professional of innovation with several years of experience as a researcher, consultant and manager. He has a PhD. from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, a Master in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He is also the creator of the first science comic about Innovation Management www.innovationstories.se.

Christer Lundh, Founder and President at AUFERO – Lessons Learned from Leading Several Lean Transformations, Ranging from a Start-up to Large Multinational Corporations

An inspiring and insightful sharing by a seasoned expert who has successfully led four Lean transformations over the past 15 years. Will share key learnings and essential do’s and don’ts from these experiences, and provide practical recommendations to enhance your own Lean initiatives. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned practitioner, this is packed with valuable takeaways to drive efficiency and continuous improvement in your organization. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a true leader in Lean transformation! 

Christer Lundh has extensive experience from leading Lean Transformations. He has a deep understanding of Lean product development. During the last fifteen years, in various leadership positions, he has effectively implemented and applied product development processes based on Flow and Knowledge Based Development (KBD) at several companies.

To empower people, Christer has successfully organized development teams around "Product Functions/ Value" perceived by customers. Small cross-functional teams making their continuous flow visible. All teams real-time prioritize based on customer value.

Christer trains and mentors managers and engineers, to do on-the-job-training to their problems, using robust rapid problem solving / gap closing processes.

Christer has personal practical multi-years’ experience as Entrepreneurial System Designer, where he led a start-up. With speed and focus, quick and valuable customer feedback, and with a great sense of urgency, the development teams rapidly improved every new prototype. It enables teams to learn about real customer needs.

Christer puts great value in a present leadership, challenging goals and empowering people, where teams quantify and close gaps. Seeing – transparency – increases motivation. By applying "homing", with multiple quantified countermeasures, teams integrate together closing their gaps, and the best part – they own the solutions.

Dimantha Kottawa Gamage, PhD Candidate Researching on Lean Innovation at Montana State University – A Systematic Approach for Organizations to Generate Set-Based Knowledge

Set-based knowledge, or Set Based Concurrent Engineering or Set-Based Thinking, is not so commonly used as a basis for the product development process as one would think when you look at it´s great potential.

Dimantha has been researching this interesting area and has summed up some of his findings. The presentation will focus on a systematic approach for the organizations to generate Set-Based Knowledge.

Dimantha Kottawa Gamage holds a B.S. in Management & IT from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Post his Bachelors, he acquired five years of industry expertise as a Lean Practitioner and Change Agent.

Dimantha currently navigates the realms of academia, He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. His research focus is Lean Product Development.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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