Nine Authors at Productivity Inc. Conferences

Our friends at consulting firm Productivity Inc. are offering several simultaneous conferences next month that not only are a great opportunity to learn about lean, but also feature presentations and workshops conducted by many authors of the books we publish.

The four conferences, taking place the week of October 6 in Nashville, are:

Lean Management Conference
Lean Healthcare Forum
Lean Innovation Symposium
Lean Executive Forum

The authors you can hear at these conferences include, in alphabetical order:

Jean Cunningham, co-author of Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT

Andrew Dillon, original translator of several of the works of Japanese lean expert Shigeo Shingo

Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction

Naida Grunden, author of The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods

Thomas Jackson, author of Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit

Drew Locher, author of Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development: A How-To Guide for Streamlining Time to Market

Mark Nash and Sheila Poling, co-authors of Mapping the Total Value Stream: A Comprehensive Guide for Production and Transactional Processes

Charles Robinson, co-author of Implementing TPM: The North American Experience

James Vatalaro, co-author of Implementing a Mixed Model Kanban System: The Lean Replenishment Technique for Pull Production

Some of these authors have written more than one book.

I hope you’ll be attending one of the conferences and can hear some of these experts. And if not, you can find a lot of wisdom in their books.