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Bruce Hamilton

Workshop Summary - "Strategic Culture Change"

 

Many businesses, including some former poster children for Lean, have struggled with long-term culture changes that are essential to gaining the full benefits of Toyota’s system.   In this workshop, defining culture as “what we do, how we do it and why we do it”, Bruce Hamilton
  • Identifies two major management blind spots that prevent a change from status quo to continuous improvement thinking
  • Explains the three key roles for top management to effect strategic culture change
  • Provides a roadmap for organizational development that engages everyone as inventors of the new culture.
This half-day workshop is geared to top and middle managers as well as lean change leaders, and will include a series of hands-on group activities and segments from GBMP’s popular DVD series.   Participants will receive GBMP’s e2 Management Workbook  as part of the workshop.


Biography

Bruce Hamilton is President of the GBMP, a Boston-based non-profit provider of lean technology. Prior to joining GBMP, Mr. Hamilton led efforts at United Electric Controls to revise its manufacturing systems from traditional batch production to one-piece part and information flow. The firm was recognized as a 1990 recipient of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence. Mr. Hamilton has been featured in the SME video, Mistake-proofing and in AMA’s video Change Management series, Winning Through Change. He is featured in the 2004 video, Toast Kaizen (recipient of 2005 Academic Shingo Prize), used world-wide to introduce the basics of lean manufacturing, as well Moments of Truth, a how-to leadership video targeted to management and supervision.

Bruce is Vice Chair of the Business Board of Examiners for the Shingo Prize and also is on the Shingo Board of Governors. In May, 2000, he was inducted into the prestigious Shingo Prize Academy. As a consultant he has helped some of America’s largest corporations -- as well as some of its smallest -- on the road to world-class practices. In addition to his 18 years in production, Bruce has also held positions in marketing, computer systems, materials management and general management. He brings to his clients a broad-based understanding of manufacturing.

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