Goodyear, Nationwide leaders behind two new 'lean-driven' books
Leaders at two Center for Operational Excellence member companies have taken their lean transformation stories to the publishing world.
Now for sale online and on shelves are Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and The Lean I.T. Field Guide: A Roadmap for Your Transformation. Lean-Driven Innovation was written by Norbert Majerus, the driving force behind the remarkable turnaround of Goodyear’s R&D shop. Tom Paider, an executive at Nationwide and the champion of COE’s I.T. Leadership Network, co-wrote the Field Guide with Mike Orzen, co-author of the I.T. operational excellence staple Lean I.T.
All three authors are familiar faces to COE audiences. Majerus spoke at COE’s spring seminar in 2012 and has brought insights from Goodyear’s ongoing lean journey each year to the center’s Leading Through Excellence summit. Another op-ex champion at Goodyear, Chief Technical Officer Joe Zekoski, brought leadership insights to the center’s fall seminar just this month.
Paider, meanwhile, helped launch the ITLN in 2012 and has served in a leadership role ever since, helping bring a wide range of speakers to the popular event series. Orzen, who kicked off the first-ever ITLN event as the featured keynote, has since joined the COE as a senior adviser.
Both Lean-Driven Innovation and The Lean I.T. Field Guide are available on Amazon and other book retail sites.
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