Fireside Chat with Jamie Bonini from Toyota & John Shook from the Lean Enterprise Institute, Moderated by Zeynep Ton

Join the Operations Management Club for a fireside chat with Jamie Bonini from Toyota and John Shook from the Lean Enterprise Institute. The panel will discuss how TPS or Lean is usually misunderstood and misapplied in companies, what it takes to create operational excellence and why most companies do not achieve operational excellence. We look forward to welcoming Jamie and John to Sloan and are excited that the conversation will be moderated by Sloan Operations professor Zeynep Ton. Lunch will be served.

Jamie Bonini is the Vice President of TSSC at Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing North America. TSSC is the Toyota Production System Support center and is a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) in Erlanger KY. TSSC works with both small to mid-sized industrial companies and non-profit organizations in North America to implement the Toyota Production System to strengthen their operations. See TSSC.com for more information and interesting videos.
(Biography is adopted from Jamie Bonini's LinkedIn profile.)

John Shook is Chairman and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute. He learned about lean management while working for Toyota for nearly 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and subsequently to other operations around the world. While at Toyota's headquarters, he became the company's first American kacho (manager) in Japan. In his latest book, Managing to Learn, he describes the A3 management process at the heart of lean management and leadership. Shook is a sought-after conference keynoter who has been interviewed on lean management by National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and numerous trade publications.
(Biography adopted from MIT Professional Education's website along with Lean.org.)

Zeynep Ton is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Zeynep is currently examining how organizations can design and manage their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors simultaneously.
(Biography adopted from MIT Sloan's website.)

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