Agenda at a Glance
DAY 1: Monday 27th October:
- 7 Practical workshops
- Plus great networking opportunities at the Welcome Cocktail Reception
DAY 2: Tuesday 28th October:
- Morning: C-level and Global Director strategy presentations
- Plus more great networking opportunities at the Twilight Amsterdam Canal Cruise
Track 1: OPTIMISING RESOURCES & COST CUTTING THROUGH LEAN
Track 2: POSITIONING SIX SIGMA AS A SERVICE DIFFERENTIATOR
Track 3: EMBEDDING DESIGN & INNOVATION INTO PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Track 4: TECHNOLOGY DEMO TRACK
DAY 3: Wednesday 29th October:
- Morning: C-level and Global Director strategy presentations
Track 1: SECURING MANAGEMENT SUPPORT & LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
Track 2: DEPLOYING & EXECUTING LEAN & SIX SIGMA ACROSS YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS
Track 3: DELIVERING VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER
Track 4: ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT Please see page (8&9) for further details
DAY 4: Thursday 30th October:
Build your own agenda
Build your own unique event timetable by picking from the line up of event options below, to ensure you get the most value from your time on site – whether it’s networking, project case studies, technology insights or strategic advice you’ll find all that you could need in one place and in just 4 days.
Split your time between:
24 in depth deployment case studies
12 first-class thought leader plenary sessions
10 contact building networking sessions
8 dedicated topic tracks
7 hands-on workshops
6 extended Q&A sessions
5 innovative technology demonstrations
3 exclusive advanced practitioner discussion groups
2 strategy building focus days
You decide how you use your time on site! Choose from our 8 dedicated topic tracks and workshops, to ensure you attend the most value adding sessions that will directly meet your most pressing business challenges. You don’t just have to stick to one topic – pick and mix a broad variety of sessions to get most lessons leant from the 4 days, tailored to your unique deployment needs in 2009.
Create you unique event outline for the 4 days today by taking a look at our brand new 2009 agenda and speakers. And if you’re the type of person that needs to schedule meetings in advance - you can use our agenda builder tool
Build your own agenda
Build your own unique event timetable by picking from the line up of event options below, to ensure you get the most value from your time on site – whether it’s networking, project case studies, technology insights or strategic advice you’ll find all that you could need in one place and in just 4 days.
Split your time between:
- 24 in depth deployment case studies
- 10 hands-on workshops
- 10 first-class thought leader plenary sessions
- 10 contact building networking sessions
- 8 extended Q&A sessions
- 5 innovative technology demonstrations
- 3 exclusive advanced practitioner discussion groups
- 2 strategy building focus days
- 1 face-to-face site visit
You decide how you use your time on site! Choose from our 8 dedicated topic tracks and workshops, to ensure you attend the most value adding sessions that will directly meet your most pressing business challenges. You don’t just have to stick to one topic – pick and mix a broad variety of sessions to get most lessons leant from the 4 days, tailored to your unique deployment needs in 2009.
Here’s just a small snapshot of the core themes but make sure you look at our full agenda to pick your unique event timetable for the 4 days.
Monday 27th October: Workshop day
If you are looking for hands-on experience of practical Lean Six Sigma tools to aid deployment programme and actively encourage buy-in then the workshop day is a must to ensure maximum skills building from the event.
Take your pick from the choice of 9 workshops to kick-start the 4 days from a range of dedicated sessions for manufacturing, services, Lean, design and deployment strategies.
Or book onto this year’s full day training session on the Unipart Way one of the most successful Lean companies in Europe, led by senior Unipart experts. With 8 dedicated hours to unravelling the key steps towards perfecting Lean deployment across your entire business, you’re guaranteed to come out with a clear plan to generate bottom-line savings and top-line growth, as well as service excellence
PLUS: Don’t miss strategic insights from Unipart’s CEO, John Neill on the 29th October 2008!
Find out more – view the full agenda for Monday 27th October
Tuesday 28th October: The choice of 4 innovative topic tracks
1. OPTIMISING RESOURCES & COST CUTTING THROUGH LEAN
4 forward-thinking sessions on how to leverage big impacts from Lean methodologies in a period of business cutbacks and unstable economies. With insights on effective resource management, automation and process restructuring and streamlining, take away advice from Europe’s leading companies on how to maximise cost cutting initiatives whilst retaining your critical business flexibility.
2. POSITIONING SIX SIGMA AS A SERVICE DIFFERENTIATOR
Take Six Sigma to the next stage of deployment! Be inspired by cutting edge case studies on how to position Lean Six Sigma as a core service differentiator:
- Meet your B2B SLAs to retain and win more business
- Manage your external business processes through an end-to-end value chain that extends all the way to the customer
- Build partnerships with Lean Six Sigma BPOs that support your culture of excellence
3. EMBEDDING DESIGN & INNOVATION INTO PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Ensure you stay ahead of the curve by adopting practical examples of DfSS and innovation projects in both service and R&D environments. Whether you want to innovate process or products you’ll find concrete case studies of how to meet your organisational growth targets as well as find out how to totally integrate DfSS into your Lean Six Sigma programmes.
4. TECHNOLOGY DEMO TRACK
***Brand New to the Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit***
Ensure that your IT investments from 2009 support your people and process change programmes for sustainable results across your business.
This brand new addition to the IQPC’s European Summit programme will give you the chance to sample 5 state-of-the-art Lean Six Sigma and data systems. It’s not an easy decision, so ensure you make the right investment decision in 2009 by sampling the newest products up front.
Find out more – view the full agenda for Tuesday 28th October
Wednesday 29th October: The choice of 4 innovative topics tracks
1. SECURING MANAGEMENT SUPPORT & LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
Struggling to get the buy-in and support for your change initiatives? Take advice from established Lean Six Sigma programme leaders on how to create a sustainable and ingrained culture of Process Excellence by:
- Creating a burning platform for your operational and senior managers
- Building internal communication strategies to energise and sustain passion for Lean Six Sigma
- Demonstrating ROI to management to secure future resources in a time of business cutbacks
2. DEPLOYING & EXECUTING LEAN ACROSS YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS
For those of you looking to leverage the power of Lean across every business department, take your pick from 4 case studies that have deployed and managed Lean in transactional and customer facing departments. And don’t just hear what others have done, take home a 3-fold strategy covering:
- 1. Changing departmental mindsets and process
- 2. Adapting the improvement tools to suit the operational environment
- 3. Tracking and managing project results
3. DELIVERING VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER
With increased competition and reduced consumer investment, retaining and growing your market share is top of everyone’s list this year. 5 sessions designed to not only increase customer value but also reposition the customer at the heart of your processes. With presentations from both manufacturing and service companies, just select which session will have the biggest impact on your customer experience programmes for 2009.
4. ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
***Take part in the first pre-qualified benchmarking session at the Lean, Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit***
This unique benchmarking room will feature 3 advanced discussion sessions designed specifically for companies with a 5 year+ deployment programme or 6 years+ individual experience in the Lean Six Sigma directly in mind.
But why is this different?
- 1. A exclusive forum restricted to only the most mature lean Six Sigma leaders through pre-qualification
- 2. 2-way discussion and sharing of programme experience at the same level
- 3. Unique benchmarking opportunity to measure your programme against your peers
Find out more – view the full agenda for Wednesday 29th October
Thursday 30th October: Focus days
Build on the 3 days of case studies by discovering more developed strategies to practical Lean Six Sigma deployment for:
- 1. Lean Six Sigma beginners: A step-by-step plan to setting up your deployment programme from scratch
- 2. Customer Satisfaction: An in depth guide to collecting, analysing and acting on voice of the customer
Site Visit: See a successful programme in the flesh by booking onto the unique site visit opportunity to one of the Netherlands top companies where you will uncover the true lessons learnt on their Lean Six Sigma journey. Your one off chance to meet with full project team, visualise the organisational processes up close and get a deeper insight into their top earning Lean Six Sigma projects.
Find out more – view the full agenda for Thursday 30th October
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