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The Center for Operational Excellence entered its 21st year of existence in 2013, but it’s unlikely this year will be anything like what you’ve experienced before. At the top of the list for why is our Leading Through Excellence summit, which begins in little more than three months and marks the first-ever multi-day event for the center.
We might be fresh off our Dec. 7 professional development meeting featuring Worthington Industries President Mark Russell and Fisher College of Business Professor Jeff Ford, but we’re already deep into planning our event roster for next year. One of the process improvement experts you’ll have access to in 2013 is Art Byrne, author of the book The Lean Turnaround and a guest Tuesday on a regular slate of webcasts hosted by our friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute.
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Fisher Senior Lecturer Mrinalini Gadkari is breaking down a recent week in the life of Fisher’s Master of Business Operational Excellence program. Stay tuned this week for more.
Lynn Kelley, VP of continuous improvement at Union Pacific, recently challenged students with two really interesting questions:
I’m not a betting man, but I’d be willing to lay down a few bucks that as you’re reading this you have your e-mail open and a to-do list stashed on your desk or in your head measuring a mile long and never shorter. Full disclosure: This is me on both counts, and I’ll throw in a foot-tall pile of papers on my desk for added effect.
Depending on your level of skepticism about the intangible in work and in life, the notion of culture being as important – or more important – than process and strategy might ring true or completely hollow. Culture itself became an important aspect of the past two events the Center for Operational Excellence has hosted, and the arguments for its impact on building a team and dealing with the outside world are enough to convert a non-believer.