Peter Hines, Waterford Institute of Technology & S A Partners   

Professor Peter Hines is the Co-Founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. After graduating from Cambridge University Peter followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992. Since that time, he initially led the Materials Management Unit and then chaired the Lean Enterprise Research Centre within Cardiff Business School.

He has undertaken extensive research into Lean Thinking and Supply Chain Management and has pioneered a number of key concepts, methods and applications in Europe and Australia, including: Supplier Associations, Value Stream Mapping and the Lean Business System.

He has written or co-written several books including “Creating World Class Suppliers” published by Pitman in 1994, “The Lean Enterprise” published by AMACOM in 1997, “Value Stream Management” published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in 2000, “Staying Lean” first published in 2008 (Shingo Research Award winner, 2009) and Creating a Lean & Green Business System in 2013 (Shingo Research Award winner, 2014).

Peter is the founder of S A Partners, a specialist consultancy organisation that assists companies to apply Lean. He also continues his academic links and is a Visiting Professor at Waterford Institute of Technology, Senior Certified Facilitator with The Shingo Institute at Utah State University and visiting roles in Universities across Europe and North America.

Peter also has an extensive LinkedIn network http://uk.linkedin.com/in/profpeterhines as well as a range of LinkedIn group with total membership approaching 100,000 people. These groups include:

Lean Business System
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1801885

Lean & Green
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1826144

Shingo Prize Europe
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostRecent=&gid=7432385&trk=my_groups-tile-flipgrp

The presentation which Peter will deliver in the summit will be a valuable benchmarking insight into the best practice in Operational Excellence across Europe, North America and Australasia, including the ideas and advices how to become the best as well.

Enterprise Excellence: Benchmarking the Best

This session presents the output of 3 years research into the world’s best operational excellence firms across Europe, North America and Australasia. It defines how you can create a culture of Continuous Improvement using a principles-based behavioural approach to improvement that has proven to achieve sustainable results. Contents include:

• A framework for Enterprise Excellence
• Outline of the 4 core operating systems required
  • Behavioral and Strategy Deployment System
  • Continuous Improvement System
  • Leadership Standard Work System
  • Learning & Development System
• Case examples
• Key does and don’ts

    ….and ideas how you can be the best.