Continuous Improvement of Your Organization's Performance

Year after Year

Speaker:

Kim Barnas - Vice President, Hospital Operations for ThedaCare

Speaker Bio:

Kim Barnas has a Masters of Science in Health Care Administration and serves as Vice President, Hospital Operations for ThedaCare in Appleton Wisconsin.  Her executive responsibilities support both Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center.  ThedaCare has been on a lean journey for the past 7 years.  The path started with Value Stream mapping followed by improvement events, and projects.  ThedaCare achieved breakthrough results, but lacked a systematic method to sustain improvement, clarify daily continuous improvement and deliver on policy deployment.  Ms. Barnas and her team have led the development of a management system in the hospital division.  Utilizing lean thinking, the system is designed to deliver improved performance through a predictable process that identifies defects, solves problems and develops people.  This system aligns the policy deployment strategies with the work at the bedside.

Abstract:

ThedaCare has developed a management system called the Business Performance System which is designed to help managers understand their performance and meet their targets while developing people and building effective teams.  This presentation will focus on the point in the lean journey when simply solving process problems isn't enough and a systematic Lean management system is needed to sustain results. The ThedaCare Model will be highlighted.

ThedaCare, based in Wisconsin, is one of the first healthcare organizations in the United States to successfully adapt the Toyota Production Systems (TPS).  Their Lean improvement system, the ThedaCare Improvement System (TIS) has been in operation for seven years. While they had breakthrough results in the first years of TIS, the overarching goal of a sustained 10% productivity improvement per year, every year, was not being met. Reflecting on their progress, ThedaCare realized that their improvement strategy had a critical missing link. How would they sustain their transformational work?  Would it be possible to deliver daily continuous improvement without a delivery model? That is what led to the development of the Business Performance System.

Date and Time: 

 Wednesday, October 13, 2010, from 6-9pm

Early Registration / Cancellation Deadline: Friday, October 8, 2010. There will be no refunds after this time. Each person must register and pay to attend the meeting and dinner. Please help us save time, expense, and avoid people showing up at the last minute… plan ahead and register early! We cannot keep costs reasonable and caterers cannot plan their food without sufficient notice.

Late Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 13, 2010.  Available after closing of regular registration. Subject to availability.

Value-Added Proposition (i.e., how it benefits attendees)  

The LCI quarterly theme “Optimizing Successful Teams” was identified through the results of LCI group member feedback at the end of the 2009 year. Ms. Barnas will be utilizing real world experiences and knowledge to communicate some of the success and opportunities she has experienced during her lean journey.

 **Recommended Reading :

Creating a Lean Culture – David Mann

Agenda:
1) Introductions: Welcome to LCI – NorCal Chapter
2) Salad Chat: To be presented at the meeting

3) Introductions and Share Salad Chat Highlights: A "lightning round" report-out of your table’s lessons observations
4) Featured Program
5) Key Takeaways:  A “lightning round” to share your key takeaways about the program.
6) Questions: A “lightning round” to ask questions about the featured program.  Presenter to Respond.
7) Next meeting overview
8) Training opportunities – Coming events
9) Plus / Delta: Feedback to improve each meeting.

Note to First Time Attendees and Others New to Lean Construction:

Please review a glossary of terms and other introductory readings before attending the meeting by visiting http://www.leanconstruction.org  

Next Meeting:    Bay Area Branch, Wednesday, November 10, 2010

                          Central Valley Branch, Thursday, November 11, 2010

Registration Assistance:  nor-cal-support@leanconstruction.org

**Special Registration Discounts: If you are not an LCI Member, you may sign up today at the LCI Member rate for this event if you purchase a one-year individual membership for $200. Go to: http://lci-individual-membership.eventbrite.com to read about the benefits and sign up today. Then, enter the words "New Member" when prompted for your “individual membership number” while signing up for this event at the LCI Member rate. Thanks!

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Paradise Valley Golf Course
3990 Paradise Valley Road
Fairfield, CA 94533

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)

LCI Nor Cal Community of Practice

The Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit research organization, was founded in August 1997. LCI's purpose is to develop and disseminate new knowledge regarding the management of work in design, engineering and construction for capital facilities. LCI has developed the Lean Project Delivery System© (LPDS), and the Last Planner® System of production control. Lean Construction is a production management-based approach to project delivery - a new way to design and build capital facilities. Lean production management has caused a revolution in manufacturing design, supply and assembly. Applied to construction, Lean changes the way work is done throughout the delivery process. Lean Construction extends from the objectives of a lean production system - maximize value and minimize waste - to specific techniques and applies them in a new project delivery process extending from project definition through design, supply and assembly.

The Northern California Community of Practice (CoP) of LCI  provides local lean support to owners, architects and designers, engineers, contractors, specialty contractors, and suppliers.  We invite owners and project delivery team members to meet together as a Community of Practice to learn, share, and develop a lean community in Northern California. As a regional forum for conversations among practitioners, the CoP will help create a new common sense for the AEC industry as LCI continues to build knowledge in design and construction.

Registration Assistance:  nor-cal-support@leanconstruction.org