Unleash It.  Unlock It.  Find the Hidden Value in Your Business

Summary

EEF in Partnership With Canon

When the economic squeeze is on, finding every opportunity to boost your bottom-line performance will be high on your agenda.

Attend this practical business briefing where we’ll show you how you can unleash the power of tried and tested business improvement techniques to unlock the hard to find cost savings and free cash-flow in your business.

We’ll help you to expand your thinking and your business horizon so that you can embed lean thinking across your entire enterprise.

With practical insights and expert opinion from practitioners, technology enablers and manufacturers themselves, you’ll take away some handy hints and practical tips to help your entire business streamline its performance.

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If you are affected by any of these issues, then get in touch to ask about future availability and to see how we can help.

EEF Member? Contact our Member Infomation Line

Not a Member? Contact our Business Development team

or call us on 0845 250 1333 to speak to our advisers.

Why attend this event?

  • Get access to the latest thinking in removing waste and adding value across your entire business processes
  • Share practice, expertise and know-how
  • Network with your peers

Capacity limit: 30

 

Who Should Attend?

  • Chief Executives
  • Managing Directors
  • Financial Directors
  • Operations Directors
  • Technical and Supply Chain Directors

Programme

Registration: 08:30 – 09:00

09:00

Introduction

09:05

Applying Lean in an Office Environment

  • 8 Wastes, Value and Waste, Lean vocabulary

09:20

Breakout session

  • How do the 8 wastes apply to me?

09:30

Feedback

09:40

Value Stream Mapping

10:00

Coffee break

10:15

Applying Lean in a Service Environment

10:35

Lean Office tools

  • 5S
  • Visual Management

10:55

Breakout session

  • Opportunities in your organisation

11:15

Feedback

11:25

Case Studies*

  • Experiences of Office Lean

11:40

The role of technology and automation in Office Lean

  • Blue sky thinking session

12:00

Summary and close

12:05

Networking Lunch

*subject to availability on the day

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Speakers

Dr Steve Chicken, Operations Director, EEF – the manufacturers’ organisation

Roger Dyer, Lean Practitioner

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About Canon

Through close work with our customers Canon understands the distinct requirements of manufacturing organisations. Our consultants combine business insight with market leading hardware, software and services – creating bespoke back office solutions that free organisations up to focus on their core business of research, development and delivering innovative products, profitably, to market.

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Fees

  • £25.00 (excl VAT) - EEF members
  • £35.00 (excl VAT) - non-members
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