Professor Peter Hines

Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School

Title: Innovation Based Competitiveness

Date & Time: January 31^st, 2012, 11:15-12:00

Speaker Profile
Professor Peter Hines, is the Co-Founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. He holds a BA (MA) in geography from Cambridge University and an MBA and PhD from the University of Cardiff. Peter followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992. Since that time he initially led the Materials Management Unit and then chaired the Lean Enterprise Research Centre within Cardiff Business School.

He has undertaken extensive research into Lean Thinking and Supply Chain Management and has pioneered a number of key concepts, methods and applications in Europe and Australia, including: Supplier Associations (now involving over 800 European firms), Value Stream Mapping, Network Sourcing, the Three Tier System of Management and the Value Stream Analysis Tool. He has written or co-written several books including "Creating World Class Suppliers" published by Pitman in 1994, "The Lean Enterprise" published by AMACOM in 1997, "Value Stream Management" published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in 2000 and "Staying Lean" first published in 2008 which won a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Recipient for 2009.

Peter is now Chairman of S A Partners, a specialist consultancy organisation that assists companies to apply Lean Thinking to their own Value Streams. S A Partners has grown rapidly, primarily through client referrals, to over 40 employees working with large multi-national firms such as Corus (Tata), Wartsila, Mars, Arla, Boston Scientific, Siemens, Boots and Rexam together with their associated Supply Chains and individual smaller companies. It now has operating companies in the UK, Ireland and Australia.

In 2011 Peter also launched a new portal www.LeanBusinessSystem.com to help his 50,000 LinkedIn group members to be able to learn, share and grow faster on their respective lean journeys.

Peter also continues his academic links with his Adjunct Professorship at the University of South Australia and associate role at LERC.

Abstract
In today's ever competitive world only the most effective organisations are going to succeed. Based on over 20 years of international research Professor Peter Hines has codified an outline for this success which, although derived from Toyota in Japan, is widely applicable to other industries and organisations. The approach called Lean Business System builds on the pioneering work of those within the Lean, 6 Sigma and Organisational Design fields to encompass an holistic way of running a business that creates the basis for sustainable success in terms of customer value, business growth and profitability.

This interactive session is designed to illustrate the approach and the principles that lie behind it. You can discover why over 50,000 people worldwide now follow the Lean Business System approach on LinkedIn.

Professor Robert Cole

Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, and Dept. Sociology, UC Berkeley, USA, Executive Director, Leadership Excellence and Advancement Program (LEAP), Visiting Researcher, ITEC, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Title: Creating New Business Models
Date & Time: 1^st of February 2012, 09:15-10:15

Speaker Profile:
Professor Cole is Emeritus Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, and Berkeley. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Global MBA program of Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan and also visiting Researcher at ITEC, Doshisha University. He is a long term researcher of Japanese quality practices with specialization in the auto and high tech industries.

Abstract
Explores the role of business models in the management of technology. Examines the importance of creating a common language for collectively analyzing about business models and managing technology in today's business environment. Elaborates on various ways of thinking about business models with a focus on how one might generate new business models. As time allows, analyzes Samsung's recent rise to hi-tech leadership and compare its business model to that of Sony's.

Professor Alan Brown

School of Management, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Title: Maintaining Business Excellence: Innovation Required

Date & Time: 1^st of February 2012, 10:15-11:15

Speaker Profile:
Professor Alan Brown is from the School of Management, Edith Cowan University, Australia and has held positions of Director, Small Medium Enterprise Research Centre (SMERC), Head of the School of Management and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Public Management at ECU. He was President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management in 2006 and is a life fellow of this Academy. He has substantial international teaching and research experience in quality management, human resource management and small business management. His research has been published in many international journals including; the International Journal of Small Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Total Quality Management, and Quality Management Journal and presented at numerous conferences. He has undertaken training and consulting activities with major Australian public and private sector organizations.

Abstract
Whilst issues relating to the implementation and building of quality and excellence in organisations have received widespread coverage, the challenges faced in maintaining and sustaining this by excellent companies is more limited. This keynote address is based on recent research into business excellence award winning organisations and examines the challenges which they face in maintaining high levels of performance within a business excellence approach. It examines the innovative approaches to addressing these challenges. The primary areas of difficulty are mostly in the strategy, leadership and people areas of the excellence framework. Challenges experienced by most organisations include embedding excellence, making it meaningful to all, consistency and engagement. Organisations deal with these in various ways with a critical central role of leaders at all organisational levels.