Deadline approaching

Friday, June 20 deadline for those applying to attend LAI's Enterprise Change Capabilities event, July 23-25, 2008

June 18, 2008

If you are interested in or plan on attending LAI's KEE on Enterprise Change Capabilities, please either complete the attached application form, or send LAI Events Coordinator Tara Eisner an email indicating your interest.

Applications received by the close of business on Friday, June 20 will be reviewed to notify participants on Monday, June 23. For more details on the event, visit the LAI web site at http://lean.mit.edu or contact Tara at 617-253-2537.

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from the Lean Advancement Initiative:

Sharing Lean Change Success Stories through the Lens of Enterprise Change Capabilities: An LAI Knowledge Exchange Event

Organized by
MIT's Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI)

Dates
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Friday, July 25, 2008

Host
Pratt & Whitney: UTC

Location
400 Main Street
East Hartford, CT

Instructors
Prof. John Carroll (MIT) and Dr. George Roth (MIT)

Registration is OPEN for LAI's Knowledge Exchange Event on Sharing Lean Change Success Stories through the Lens of Enterprise Change Capabilities. The event will be led by Prof. John Carroll (MIT) and Dr. George Roth (MIT) and hosted by Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Connecticut. The focus of this KEE is, as indicated in it title, "Sharing Lean Change Success Stories through the Lens of Enterprise Change Capabilities." The success of this LAI KEE depends as much upon the participants in the event and their willingness to engage and share in their change experiences as it does on the materials that the instructors develop and present. Therefore, all registrants will be screened prior to their registration being confirmed.

The course is open to LAI consortium members and the public and is ideal for engineering leadership and change agents interested gaining advanced insights into lean product development systems. However, due to the nature of EHRO's military work, people employed by companies that compete with Pratt & Whitney and non-US citizens will be limited in the tour areas that they visit.

The course program objectives include:

Teaching and sharing LAIs knowledge for success lean enterprise change initiatives,
Networking with colleagues leading defense industry and government lean change efforts
Developing understanding of enterprise change processes and how they compare and contrast with organizational change,
Reconciling enterprise change capability to planned (EVSMA process) change approaches -

Attendees
Executives, senior managers, change leaders, or master facilitators in business and government organization with experience in the following areas:

developing and deploying strategy and plans
designing improvement programs and supporting infrastructure
managing managers, change agents, and training professions, and
proposing and carrying out programs for executive (top-level) leaders.

Participants should currently be in positions that enable them to apply change capabilities in their organization; they should have current responsibilities for diagnosing their organization, its capabilities and carrying out new strategic and other new improvement, learning and change programs.

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