Exchange in a Digital World!

Exchange Following the spirit of Lean Product & Process Development EXCHANGE there will be good possibilities to Exchange knowledge with other attendees as well as with the speakers. 

After each presentation, we have a session +Reflections and interaction where you will reflect and interact on the learnings from the presenter. 

We end the virtual LPPDE with some final reflections and remarks and hope the Exchange will continue on our LinkedIn site

International Thought Leaders

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland

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

Fredrik Fjellstedt, Partner & Master Enabler at BTP

Hoshin Kanri

This presentation is about creating breakthrough results through Hoshin Kanri, also known as policy or strategy deployment.

Imagine a company culture where...

• You are always challenging the organization to achieve better results
• You are focusing the organizational energy by involving more leaders and team members in the strategic work
• You are effectively transforming the strategic plans into concrete actions
• You are capturing the innovative ideas during the strategic work

Hoshin Kanri is the management system in lean. Hoshin Kanri provides a system to the leadership team and leaders for giving direction, prioritizing strategic goals and setting challenges in order to become more competitive.

Hoshin Kanri will enable you as leader to create clarity about your strategic challenges, build commitment to achieve the goals and gain consensus, making the entire organization strive towards the same direction.

Fredrik Fjellstedt has over 15 years of experience working with organizational & people development, process improvement and quality, acting in various roles such as line manager, project manager, Master Trainer, coach, workshop facilitator, trainer, restaurant manger and consultant.

Over the years he has been leading several major pan-European change initiatives mainly focusing people & culture; e.g.:

- The Toyota approach for Problem Solving (PDCA & A3)

- Hoshin Kanri deployment

- New company values based on the Toyota Way

- Company wide Leadership Philosophy

- A new Code of Conduct

His area of expertise, and also his passion, is the lean philosophy. His strength is to connect culture, leadership and actual way working in order to become successful.

Fredrik is used to work with all levels in the organization, all the way from the executive team to the individual leader and team member.

Specialties: Organizational learning, Leadership development, Training, eLearning, Toyota Way, Toyota Production System, Lean, Change management, Hoshin Kanri, Talent development, Employer branding, Corporate culture development, Code of Conduct

Bengt Johansson, Owner, trainer, Global Lean Innovation & Quality Manager, ASSA ABLOY Group

Systematic Lean and Agile Work to Increase Innovation

How do you increase your company's performance on innovation when you already have a solid base of lean product development?

ASSA ABLOY has introduced agile practices bottom-up to accompany their lean product development methods in harmony with their value driven organization to improve one step more.

Bengt has developed, trained and coached much of the implementation and seen the transformation break through and improve the innovation ability. He is a very “hands-on” engineer participating and challenging this development in their 90 R&D sites.

Bengt Johansson has spent his entire working life at ASSA ABLOY and has seen the company grow to a global champion. Bengt has been working around 25 years with product development in different roles, production engineering, through quality management and product development. The latest 15 years Bengt spent in ASSA ABLOYs Lean Innovation program where he has been the Global Lean Innovation Manager the latest 6 years.

Matt Albin, Spark Performance Solutions

4 Foundation principles to consider when making information visible

This is a fresh, newly developed presentation about the 4 Foundation principles to consider when making information visible.

The session will cover four principles you need to address during the development of any visual board, why these are critical to long-term sustainment and techniques that have successfully been used address these principles.

Matt Albin is a Customer Solutions Coach and his career spans over 20 years as a global business leader where he worked in new product development, project management, marketing, procurement, supply chain management and continuous improvement.  He has successfully developed people and implemented Lean practices and human-centered design methods in knowledge-based work and operations across the globe including 2 ½ years in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Norbert Majerus, Business Owner, norbert majerus consulting

A SBCE Story

Norbert has some great stories in his brand-new book, Winning Innovation. One is a SBCE Story. Set Based thinking and SBCE (Set Based Concurrent Engineering) are essential methods in any lean product and process development flow, yet we see very few true applications. Norbert will present his story with a clear and practical case showing Set Based thinking at work.

Norbert Majerus is a highly experienced man. Beginning in 2005, Norbert implemented a principles-based lean product development process at the three Global Innovation Centers of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. For more than a decade he was Goodyear’s lean champion in research and development.

Norbert, born and raised in Luxembourg, has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany. He joined Goodyear in Luxembourg in 1978, transferred to Akron in 1983, and has worked most disciplines in the Goodyear innovation centers in Luxembourg and Akron.

In 2016, Norbert published his first book, Lean-Driven Innovation (Norbert Majerus, CRC Press, 2016), which received the Shingo Research Award. Also in 2016, with Norbert’s guidance the Goodyear R&D organization applied for and received the AME Excellence Award. Norbert has spoken at many conferences in the United States and other countries. Since retiring from Goodyear in 2017, he continues to share his extensive lean expertise via norbert majerus consulting. His latest contribution is his second book Winning Innovation, just released!