LCS Community Event – Cardiff
The last of our community events for 2024 will be hosted by LCS at our home at Cardiff University on the 10th December 2024.
The event is an opportunity for knowledge sharing and networking with like-minded individuals from the LCS Community. The theme for this event is – Lean is for life and not just for Christmas – and will focus on how we can sustain improvement in the long term.
Onsite places are limited – maximum one person per organisation. Further places are available to join online with no limit for each organisation.
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Onsite Insights: DHL Supply Chain, Coalville, Leicestershire
DHL Supply Chain, part of the DPDHL Group is the World’s leading logistics provider. Combining management and value-added services with customised, integrated logistics solutions drives resilience, efficiency, improves quality and creates competitive advantage. DHL Supply Chain operates in 50+ countries with over 177,000 full-time employees. Ensuring outstanding and sustainable operations requires the best people. That’s why DHL strives to provide a safe, inclusive and purpose-driven workplace rooted in the guiding principles of Respect and Results – values that form the foundation of everything they do.
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£345 plus VAT – 20% discount will be provided for LCS members
To book, please contact Ailsa Carson at <ailsa.carson@sapartners.com> and quote the reference from LCS for the discounted price. For information on more events and information, you can visit: OnsiteInsight Events
Visit agenda
10:30 Arrival & Coffee
- Introduction and Overview of Coalville facility
- DHL Operations Management System – how we use OMS to deliver for our Customers
- Site Tour
- Lunch
- Continuous Improvement at DHL
- Q&A
15:00 Close
Advanced Improvement Practitioner Course: LCS Level 2a
This 3-day Advanced Improvement Practitioner Course aims at developing the key skills and attributes required of a senior, self-starting improvement practitioner.
The course adds significant depth to the basic fundamentals of the Operations Excellence Management System taught at LCS 1B and 1C, with a specific focus on handling related implementation challenges.
Delegates will be provided with a breadth of diagnosis tools and techniques to help them identify a much wider variety of organisational improvement opportunities.
The course will also provide them with a practical model for approaching complex transformations, spanning multiple department or functions and allow them to develop an appreciation of the people-related skills required to mobilise and sustain change.
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ICiPS Annual Conference and Awards
The ICiPS conference is widely considered to be a value adding day, where knowledge is exchanged, new ideas aired and contacts made, so join us at our 2024 conference and award ceremony, to be held 16th October 2024 in York.
Hear from leading experts and academics how services can be improved through insight from the past.; how failures provide a rich source of insight, and how to prevent failure.
Enjoy formal presentations, break outs and panel sessions and the opportunity for one-to-one meetings with exhibitors and sponsors.
You can find out more and sign up on the ICiPS website – Conference | CI Week | ICiPS | Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services
The ICiPS awards are a chance to recognise the efforts of those who have applied CI to deliver service improvements. Awards are made at the conference, with nominees showcasing their work for delegates.
Previous winners include Network Rail, Sellafield, Essex County Council and Serco.
You can find out more about the ICiPS awards and apply via awardsapplication2024.pdf (icips.org)
Closing date for award applications is 16th August 2024
LCS Community Event – RS Group
The third of our community events will be hosted by RS Group at their site in Corby on the 9th October 2024. The event is an opportunity for knowledge sharing and networking with like-minded individuals from the LCS Community. The theme for this event is – Making every day better
Onsite places are limited – maximum one person per organisation. Further places are available to join online.
You can apply for a place at Sign-up form
Draft Agenda
09:30 – Arrivals and Refreshments
09:55 – Welcome from the hosts
10:00 – Showcase 1 – HSBC Technology
10:20 – Showcase 2 – ComputaCenter/ TUI
10:40 – Showcase 3 – RS Group
11:00 – Showcase 4 – NHS Blood and Transplant
11:20 – Showcase 5 – TBC
11:40 – Panel questions
12:00 – Lunch/ networking
12:45 – Ask the Audience
13:30 – Discussion groups / Site Tour
14:30 – Site Tour/ Discussion groups
15:30 – Wrap up and Close
Each showcase will be a frontline story of improvement with a different theme.
Lean Project Practitioner Course – Lean Competency System Level 1b/c
Our 3-day Lean Project Practitioner Course is a practical course that teaches the fundamentals of Lean and how to use the approach to transform service operations. It is suitable for all individuals who are interested in discovering how to successfully implement Lean practices into organisations, and more particularly people from operations or developing improvement practitioners.
Through many practical exercises, our course introduces a different methodology to the traditional Lean manufacturing approach and focuses on how to implement Operational Excellence in either a back or front office environment.
The course also builds the required skills to initiate change such as business analysis, implementation design, coaching peers and selling and presenting the benefits of change.
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