DAY 01 - MORNING
Dr Alan McLenaghan, Site Director and Global World Class Manufacturing Co-ordinator
SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS
“Good to Great – Leading Factories to Excellence”
What are the skills you need to take your plant or business from good performance to great performance? Dr Alan McLenaghan will run through the “art and the science” behind great factories. From recruitment/selection and training the right team, to inspiring and leading them to operational excellence.
Alan represents Saint-Gobain on the CBI’s Manufacturing Council, is a director of British Glass (the UK glass manufacturers' confederation) and supports the Yorkshire and Humber branch of the Bank of England in economic forecasting.
Under Alan’s directorship, SGGUK have won numerous safety awards, including the University of Cranfield's Best Factory Award in 2005, a National Training Award and more recently a Business Commitment to the Environment Award.
DAY 01 - MORNING
Steven Broomhead, Chief Executive of the Northwest Regional Development
NORTH WEST DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
As Chief Executive of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Steven Broomhead is responsible for a budget of £1.5 billion for the three years up to 2009, assets of approx £200 million, 400 staff and an extensive remit encompassing the economic, social and regeneration development of England’s Northwest. During his tenure, Steven has overseen rapid progress in the work of the agency as it develops a £106 billion economy to improve the prosperity and quality of life for the region’s 7 million citizens. The National Audit Office has recently carried out a detailed quality audit of the Agency and the outcome was “Performing Strongly” – the highest grade available.
Until 2003, Steven was Chief Executive of Warrington Borough Council (Unitary). During his 5½ years in this position, the Borough received excellent inspection reports and Warrington was recognised nationally as a major centre for enterprise and inward investment.
DAY 01 - AFTERNOON
Doug Richard
ENTREPRENEUR AND FORMER BBC ‘DRAGON’
Doug shot to business as one of the Dragons from the highly successful BBC programme Dragon’s Den. A UK-based Californian entrepreneur, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Library House, an investment research and consulting firm based in Cambridge, and co-founder of Hotxt, a new mobile start-up offering unlimited texting. Before this, he was founder or CEO of three different prominent technology companies including ITAL Computers, which sold services that integrated computer aided design and manufacture systems to the southern California aerospace industry. ITAL Computers was sold in a private transaction in 1991 and the profits used to found Visual Software.
In May 2006, Doug received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for his work promoting, developing, and helping entrepreneurs - the first American to receive the honour.
DAY 03 - MORNING
Commander Robert Swenson (Retired)
US ARMY, LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT
Leaning Forward – Transforming Letterkenny Army Depot Through Lean
In 2002 Letterkenny began employing lean to transform the way it did business. At the time it was the most expensive depot in the US Army's system, was losing workload and was the most likely depot to be closed by the next Base Closure Study. Two and a half years later Commander Swenson had led the depot to return millions of dollars in lean savings to the customer, more than doubled workload, earned the titled the “BestDepot in Army Material Command” and won the Shingo Prize for Lean Manufacturing Excellence. Letterkenny was the first army depot to win the Shingo prize - dubbed the Nobel Prize of manufacturing by Business Week magazine.
DAY 03 - MORNING
Professor Mike Campbell
Director of Development at the Sector Skills Development (SSDA)
Mike is responsible for championing and leading the Skills for Business network’s thinking and evidence base on the skills and productivity agenda. He is also worked as the adviser to the Leitch Review of UK Skill Needs.
He is a member of the Northern Ireland Skills Expert Group; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Investors in People Ambassador. He holds a Visiting Professorship of Economics at Durham Business School. He was awarded the OBE for services to economic development in the 2004 New Years Honours List.
His most recent books are Skills and Economic Performance (with Sam Porter) (Caspian 2006) and Learn to Succeed: The Case for a Skills Revolution (Policy Press 2002). His other published work includes: Skills in England 2001 (DfES/LSC); What Works Locally? (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2001); Partnership for Success (DfEE 2000); Learning Pays and Learning Works (NACETT 2000); Local Partnerships (OECD 1999 and 2001); and Higher Education and Regional Economic Development (CIHE 1999).
He has been the European Commission’s labour market expert for the UK; a member of the research group supporting the Skills Task Force, where he held a particular remit for labour market and skills intelligence; and an adviser to the Cabinet Office on Workforce Development.
DAY 03 - LUNCH
Dale Easdon, Regional Chief Operating Officer
LSG SKY CHEFS (LUFTHANSA)
Supply Chain Optimisation – Extraordinary Results from Ordinary People
Before recently taking the COO role, Dale was the Senior Director, Operations for Food Services at Continental Airlines and was responsible for its supply chain optimisation initiative.
Continental set out on its lean journey due to necessity after September 11. The company considered many options for tackling lean including going outside the company to utilise consultants. The team decided to take the journey on its own by picking six internal ‘superstars’ and encouraging full involvement from the top to the bottom of the organisation. Costs have been reduced by $33 million and the company has achieved a 99.8% on-time record that is among the highest in the industry.
DAY 03 - AFTERNOON
Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice President
WILLIAM A. SCHREYER
CHAIR IN GLOBAL ANALYSIS
Director
GLOBAL STRATEGY INSTITUTE (WASHINGTON)
Erik Peterson holds the William A.Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, an endowed position named in honour of the Merrill Lynch Chairman Emeritus and CSIS Executive Committee member. He is director of the centre's Global Strategy Institute, the mandate of which is to assess long-range policy challenges and opportunities. In addition, he leads the Seven Revolutions Initiative, a broad-based effort to forecast key trends out to the year 2025. Currently, he is a member of the Global Risk Network of theWorld Economic Forum, a boardmember of the Centre for Global Business Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of the Presidency. In September 2006, in recognition of his achievements at the centre, Mr Peterson was named by the CSIS Board of Trustees as its 2006-2007 Trustees Fellow.
