Track 7
Policy Deployment – A Path for Lean Success
John Gould
Simpler Consulting
Abstract : Many companies are embarking on a “lean Journey” to ensure continued success in their markets. Many have studied the tools and have successfully implemented them achieving significant results. As these selected results are compounded they frequently find that their major market issues continue to plague them. Their financials seem to not fully reflect the total accumulation of their Lean effort. This is a result of using the Lean tools as a end in itself rather than developing a “Strategy” for success and then using the “Lean Tools” as a tactic for achieving this strategy. Policy Deployment defines the
direction for a successful Lean implementation by integrating the goals of an organization from top to bottom and provides a mechanism to drive successful strategy implementation.
Bio : John Gould joined Simpler as a Sr. Consultant after 3 years as an Executive Management Consultant with the Six Sigma Academy . Over his 30 year career he has held positions as Division President, VP & General Management, Director of Operations, Plant Manager, VP Quality, Director of Quality and Marketing Manager with multiple Fortune 500 companies such as Danaher, TRW, Allied Signal and General Electric.
Bio: Mr. Gould is a Lean Master with 17 years experience with Lean-Sigma gained while as an executive with Danaher Corporation and Tuthill Corporation where he was a Division President with both companies. During the last three years as an Executive Consultant with the Six Sigma Academy where he worked with 12 major corporations implementing Lean and Six Sigma transformation systems.
Mr. Gould is also a Six Sigma Master Black Belt obtained while instructing for Motorola at the Motorola University He has over 30 years of general management, operations and quality experience.
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