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Published: 12/17/2015
(Shingo Institute: Logan, UT) -- The Shingo Institute, part of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, will hold its 28th International Shingo Conference on April 25–29, 2016, in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Washington Downtown Hotel and Convention Center.
Past Shingo International Conferences have drawn more than 800 attendees and featured industry leaders as speakers. The main subjects of the summit are the ways in which leaders and managers can improve their organizations.
Historically, attendees have been mostly local business leaders and managers from manufacturing companies, as well as an increasing number of executives from health care, finance, and other industries. All speakers at the conference will be experienced corporate officers and consultants who improved companies dramatically using principles of the Shingo Model.
Speakers include:
• Doug Friesen, chief operating officer of The Crosby Group
• Bill Baker, president of Speed To Excellence
• Steve Hoeft, chief of operations excellence at Baylor, Scott & White Health
• Dwane Lay, vice president of customer experience at Dovetail Software
• Brad Parsons, chief executive officer at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital
• Skip Steward, chief improvement officer at Baptist Memorial Health
Topics discussed at this year’s Shingo International Conference will include:
• How to transform health care processes with ideas from your associates
• The role of lean in achieving operational excellence in health care
• How to align your lean initiative to maximize full business potential
• How to build excellence
• Elements of the Shingo Model and how they can work at your organization
Also in attendance at the conference will be representatives from Shingo licensed affiliates who offer workshops on how to use the Shingo Model to shape an organization’s culture to foster continuous improvement and constancy of purpose. Shingo Institute-licensed affiliates are listed at Shingo.org/affiliates.
For further details on the Shingo International Conference, visit the Shingo Institute website.
Links:
[1] http://www.huntsman.usu.edu
[2] http://www.usu.edu/
[3] http://shingo.org/affiliates.html
[4] http://shingo.org