Lean Construction Institute (LCI) - Nor-Cal Chapter Meeting

April 8th, 2009

Join us in the first of our 2^nd Quarter series on lean project definition, planning, and design with Debbie Hoffman, Associate Director of Healthcare from Navigant Consulting, Inc.  Come learn how lean value stream mapping helps improve any business process, and helps owners better define their facility needs to house their lean enterprise.  

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

Agenda:

1)  Introductions - Welcome to LCI - Nor Cal Chapter 

2)  Salad Chat: Discuss what you have learned or observed about lean since the March meeting.
3)  Introductions – And share your results using lean concepts on projects and in your offices:  

A "Lightning Round" Report on lowlights and highlights of any Lean assessments or observations performed in March, your use of 5S, or your site walk looking for waste.

4) Main Speaker:   Debbie Hoffman, Associate Director of Healthcare from Navigant Consulting, Inc. opens our 2^nd Quarter series speaking about lean project definition, planning, and design.  She will discuss how applying lean concepts and tools helps optimize the healthcare delivery methods to inform a new facility design. By implementing the tools of Value Steam Mapping to define a new process flow and then simulation modeling will create an efficient, patient care process, and then better define an efficient building scheme.  Optimal operational and facility benefits. In tackling legacy process flows prior to the onset of programming and design, the team will eliminate unnecessary efforts and reiterations.  The impact to the facility design can result in less space required, fewer dedicated areas, and dissolution of departmental silos.

This presentation will demonstrate, with case studies, the value of taking the time to develop a ‘future state’ value stream map, improve the project’s space program (using lean tools) and improve both facility and operational costs.

An overview of a current state, future state value stream coupled with best practices will be incorporated into the presentation along with a simulation model of a current client.

5) Questions - Lightning round to share your comments and questions about this topic.
6) Next meeting:   May 13th, 2009.  Topic:  Dave Van Wyk, Disney will continue our 2^nd Quarter theme of Lean Project Definition, Planning, and Design discussing how Disney is changing its project delivery model to incorporate lean principles to define, design and build it’s theme parks. 

7) Training opportunities – upcoming events! 

8) Plus / Delta - Feedback to improve each meeting. 

 NOTE:  The deadline to register is Monday, April 6th by 9:00 AM.  I'm sorry, there will be no add-ons after this time. 

Corporate Membership in LCI is $5,000 per year. www.leanconstruction.org

Individual Membership is $200.00.