“Yes!” says TimeBack Management founder and Stanford professor Dan Markovitz. The High Desert Enterprise Consortium (HiDEC) will present an interactive roundtable with Dan Markovitz, author of A Factory of One on April 22 from 5:30-7:30pm at The Oxford Hotel in Downtown Bend.
This roundtable is open to all businesses in Central Oregon and offers a highly affordable opportunity to interact with an expert at the forefront of Lean training. Not just for manufacturers, the event has value for a wide range of organizations, industries, and individuals.(Costs are $15 for HiDEC members and $20 for non-members and include appetizers.)
Those interested in registering may do so at this link: Here.
Dan’s business consultancy, TimeBack Management, is centered on improving individual and organizational performance through the application of Lean concepts.
He has consulted with organizations as diverse as Abbott Vascular, Intel, the City of Menlo Park, Clif Bar, CamelBak, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Earlier in his career, Dan held management positions in product marketing at Sierra Designs, Adidas, CNET and Asics Tiger, where he worked in sales, product marketing, and product development. He also has experience as an entrepreneur, having founded his own skateboarding footwear company.
In his 2013 book, A Factory of One, Dan takes powerful Lean tools—such as visual management, flow, pull, 5S, and kaizen—and shows how to apply them to daily work. For individuals who feel overwhelmed, he offers practical (yet refreshingly new) tools that work in our resource-constrained environments.
Dan contends that every person at a desk, drafting table, workstation, or operating table must deal with the challenge of reducing the waste that creeps into their work. Just like a factory. The same Lean principles that have improved efficiencies on the factory floor can be just as powerful—in fact, far more so—in helping individuals boost personal performance.
The event is generously underwritten by BBSI, whose Bend office provides business management solutions for small-to mid-sized businesses.
High Desert Enterprise Consortium As a consortium of independent manufacturing businesses in Central Oregon, HiDEC is dedicated to providing access to quality training, continuing education and a creative forum for sharing ideas to assist the region’s enterprises in achieving world-class performance. The organization holds monthly training sessions to share best practices and professionally-developed curriculum in productivity and process improvement, lean waste reduction and other continuous improvement training. HiDEC’s members meet regularly for industry roundtables to discuss common issues and hold learning tours throughout the region at member manufacturing operations.
Dan MarkovitzDan Markovitz is president of TimeBack Management, a consulting firm that radically improves performance by applying lean concepts to knowledge work.
He is a faculty member at the Lean Enterprise Institute and teaches at the Stanford University Continuing Studies Program. He also lectures on A3 thinking at the Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business. Dan is also a frequent speaker and presenter at conferences, and has consulted to organizations as diverse as Abbott Vascular, WL Gore & Associates, Intel, the City of Menlo Park, Clif Bar, CamelBak, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
His book, A Factory of One, was honored with a Shingo Research Award in 2013. Dan has also published articles in the Harvard Business Review blog, Quality Progress, Industry Week magazine, Reliable Plant magazine, and Management Services Journal, among other magazines.
Earlier in his career, he held management positions in product marketing at Sierra Designs, Adidas, CNET and Asics Tiger, where he worked in sales, product marketing, and product development. He also has experience as an entrepreneur, having founded his own skateboarding footwear company. Dan lived in Japan for four years and is fluent in Japanese.
He holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
