"Strategy Deployment: The Guiding Compass
of Hoshin Kanri"
- Mark DeLuzio 

This workshop will give the participant the insights into the techniques for converting strategic business objectives into reality.  It will explore the anatomy of a good Strategy Deployment plan, and the relevant ties to aligning Lean initiatives, including the use of the Deming cycle, or Plan-Do-Check-Act.  Metrics will be discussed as those tied to Strategy Deployment as well as those tied to Daily Management (Key Performance Indicators).  Strategy Deployment is essential for every successful Lean transformation.

"Lean X-Ray Vision: The Importance of Deep
Knowledge of Current Reality"
- Jamie Flinchbaugh 

Lean talks about terms such as “go to the gemba” and “current state” loosely, but little is explored into the deep skill behind this concepts. Without being capable of deeply understanding your current state, all other lean principles and methods are dramatically constrained. Explore the methods and framework for deeply understanding process, culture and your lean transformation strategy.

"Seeing David in the Stone: Find and Seize Great Opportunities Using 12 Actions Mastered by 70 Highly Successful Leaders"
- Jim Swartz  

Learn how Jim Swartz has concluded that becoming a success in the marketplace was more than applying the practices of the TPS system.  It’s also about mastering the science and art of Opportunity Finding and Seizing.

For the last 20 years, he searched for answers to three timeless questions:      · How did some people find and seize the great opportunities
       of their times?
     · What can we learn from them to help us find and seize
       great opportunities?
     · How did great leaders help others (and organizations) to
       find and seize great opportunities?

In this search, they studied the works, and the past research on over 100 highly successful leaders and their organizations, including Edison, Einstein, Gates, Eiji Toyoda, Ohno, Shingo, Morita, Curie, Eisenhower, and Walton. They discovered that great innovators all took the same actions to find and seize the great opportunities of their times. Recently they published Seeing David in the Stone, a book focused on Finding High Leverage Opportunity, Mobilizing People to Seize opportunities, and Seizing Opportunities at High Leverage Points.  Jim shares the best practices that make the difference between the great companies and the mediocre ones.