Acting Your Way to Horizontal Thinking

November 20, 2013

In this keynote presentation from the 2013 AME conference, James Womack, founder of the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute, and Ingersoll-Rand executive Todd Wyman summarize the key steps in the company’s developing lean transformation, including:Changing management’s focus from vertical silos to horizontal value streamsMain elements of its daily management effortSteps for management gemba walksResults from a compressor value streamRegister for the 2014 Lean Transformation Summit to hear Ingersoll-Rand’s lean journey in even more detail.

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Changing management’s focus from vertical silos to horizontal value streams
Main elements of its daily management effort
Steps for management gemba walks
Results from a compressor value stream

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James (Jim) Womack, PhD

About James (Jim) Womack, PhD

Widely considered the father of the lean movement, Womack has been talking and publishing about creating value through continuous innovation around deep customer understanding for many years. In the late eighties, he and Dan Jones led MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Research Program (IMVP), which introduced the term “lean” to describe…