Gregory William MacDougall

Reinventing Your Lean DNA

Overcoming Obstacles to Breakthrough Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book adds new material to the Cogent Power 'road to sustainable lean story' with a singular focus and company perspective that chronicles the valuable lessons learned in the evolution of its Burlington, Ontario, Canada facility, today a sought after benchmark leader in lean enterprise thinking. The book teaches on how to succeed as a sustainable lean organization, commit to the unconventional, and stay the informed course of transformational change, no matter its unforeseen and perilous obstacles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apple Academic Press Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482252521
• ISBN-10: 148225252X
• Artikelnr.: 62537082

Autorenporträt

Greg MacDougall is an engaged, experienced leader with a keen passion and understanding in customer value focused, people-centric, lean transformations. While a senior leader at Cogent Power, Greg was Certified in 2004 by the Cardiff University, Lean Enterprise Research Centre consulting team of SA Partners LLC, as a Lean Program Coach and is credited as a driving force behind one of Canada's most recognized and successful lean conversions at Cogent Power Inc., case study subject of the Shingo Prize awarded, CRC-Productivity Press publication: Staying Lean, Thriving Not Just Surviving, as contributed to by Mr. MacDougall. Greg is highly skilled and knowledgeable in quality management, safety and lean thinking having directed numerous global project undertakings while serving in his capacity at Cogent Power, as well as, Corporate Director, Quality Management, ABC NACO, Chicago, IL, and Quality Systems Manager, Dofasco Steel (Arcelor Mittal), Hamilton, ON. Greg MacDougall is an engaged, experienced With Cogent Power sought after as an international lean benchmark by many business sectors, Mr. MacDougal worked directly with business leaders covering a range of topics including: strategic processes; leadership and leader standard work; voice of the customer; lean safety; lean maturity diagnostics; tools and techniques of lean; problem solving; cultural transformation; horizontal integration; and Training Within Industries (TWI) job instruction processes to name a few. As a Certified Training Within Industries Job Instruction Trainer, Greg is highly qualified to provide expert assistance having directly overseen the effective implementation of Cogent Power's TWI standard work platform, inclusive of its custom fit management tools and behavior change focus. He is also credited as a pioneer of shop floor leadership development through the introduction of a breakthrough Lean Apprentice Coach strategy which engages, instructs, coaches and mentors small groups of employees in several disciplines, whilst developing their abilities in peer to peer coaching. The win win effect of these individuals can be directly measured as tipping point contributors to the overall transformation process and in their eventual transition as future workplace leaders. Mr. MacDougall is a graduate of Mohawk College (Quality Management) and McMaster University (Metallurgy); past Instructor at Mohawk College; Senior ASQ Member; Advisory Committee Member for Health and Safety Ontario (WSPS); Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) conference volunteer serving as Special Interest Session Program Chair for Toronto in 2013; and has authored numerous papers, presentations, workshops and articles on the subject of continuous improvement (see list attached).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Lessons Learned - The Overwhelming Case for Sustainable
Change. Recapping the Cogent Power Storyline. Why Lean Fails to Deliver on
the Expected Outcomes? (including case study). Making Your Lean Strategy a
Holistic Blueprint for Success? Confronting the Inevitable - Obstacles that
Short Circuit Transformations. Obstacles and Why They Appear. The
Pioneering Spirit to Overcome. Engaging the Organization - Changing the
Power Base for Success. Adopting a Value Stream Managed Structure. A
Framework for Leadership Accountability. Line of Sight -The Need for Leader
Standard Work. Leadership at all Levels (including Lean Apprentice Strategy
Case Study). Creating Workplace Accountability (including TWI Standard Work
Case Study). Cultivating Employee Buy in - The Green and Safe Workplace
(including case study). Focusing on Your Customer - If You Aren't then Who
is? (including case study). Giving Back - Chronicling the Brant Community
Healthcare Lean Start-up. Detailed case study with inputs from BCH and
Cogent Power. Closing Comments. Engaging the organization - capturing the
hearts and minds of everyone). Engage, Engage, Engage - You Can't Engage
Enough. Managers need to become leaders. Visual Monuments - Sending the
Message We Are Committed. Open Communication - Eliminate the Negative
Voice. The Lean Apprentice - Providing Tipping Point for Change (and Case
Study). Training Within Industries - The Need For Repetitive, Standard Work
Practice (and Case Study). Lean Workplace Safe Workplace - Motivate and
Enhance Employee Safety Through Lean. Voice Of The Customer - Letting
Customers Have a Say in Your Business. Coping with the challenges of lean:
when obstacles appear! Identify the early gaps and challenges ahead. The
importance of a lean diagnostic (a case study). Workplace order is mediocre
at best. (a case study). Line of sight Daily Management - The Need For
Management Standard Work (and Case Study). The Sustainable Challenge.
Breakthrough Change Strategies - Overcoming The Obstacles. Let The Real
Transformation Begin. It Starts With Leadership - First Look Inward at
Self. Realigning Around the Performance Management Framework. Revisiting
Engagement - Connecting on Emotional and Rational Levels. Changing
Behaviors and Developing Organizational Accountability. Turning Value
Streams Upside Down - Who Should Run the Operation?