Mike Orzen

Workshops – Coaching – Consulting

  • ● Enterprise Transformation to Operation Excellence

  • ● Lean Operations & Manufacturing

  • ● Lean Healthcare – EHR/PM

  • ● Lean IT

  • ● Lean IT for Healthcare

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7th PHRMA Strategic Management Conference: 

The HR Factor: Powerful Strategies to Impact Your Organization, Portland, OR, May 16, 2012

Beyond Process Improvement Tools, Using Lean  to Drive Strategic Alignment


8th Lean in Manufacturing and Services Summit + 

Redesigning Healthcare Summit, Brisbane, Australia

May 8 - 11, 2012

Keynote presentations, Lean IT workshops and a special session with a colleague! More information on Mfg and Services Summit. More information on Healthcare Summit.


2012 Shingo Prize International Conference

Jacksonville, Florida, April 30 - May 4, 2012

I have the honor of presenting the new edition of the Shingo Workshop on the Principles of Operational Excellence at this year's conference. More information.


Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH, April 3, 2012

Over 300 Sign Up To Attend!

The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business Center of Excellence is proud to partner with member Nationwide Insurance to bring you a new, innovative series of programming focused on the role lean thinking can play in the world of information technology. Registration is officially open for the first event, a morning with Mike Orzen, a lean IT guru with more than 25 years’ experience consulting and co-author of the book Lean IT

Orzen will outline the value lean can bring to IT with a wide-ranging presentation packed with case studies and deployment strategies. The event is free.


itSMF Conference in Oslo, Norway March 14&15, 2012

650 Attendees Turn Out!

itsmf Simply the Best

Key Note Address– “Learning is the Ultimate Objective!”

This presentation focuses on IT operations and the challenges they face while addressing the reality of limited time, money and resources. The core principles of Lean are applied to ITSM including waste, flow, value streams, and perhaps most importantly A3 thinking. Several examples are provided to move from theory to application and to clarify how these ideas can be successfully applied when the audience returns to their business. More Information.


Presenting at the 16th IT Service Management Conference in Las Vegas, February 20, 2012

Lean IT From Theory to Practice

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AME_Roadshow_Flyer_2011-1Australia-New Zealand Lean IT Roadshow September 2011

The Path to Lean IT by Mike Orzen

"Enabling the Flow of Value Through Quality Information"

pdf AME Roadshow Flyer 2011

The path to Lean IT: develop people, improve business processes daily, and thoughtfully apply technology after manual systems are improved . . . in that order.

Event Overview
This workshop presents the next level of thinking in leveraging IT. It will show you how to drive new behaviours, skills and innovation within your IT organization to adapt, improve, and keep the organization moving forward. Lessons learned will support IT staff to become key enablers of process improvement within IT Operations and the organization as a whole.

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What is Lean IT and why should I attend this workshop?
In today's world, very little occurs without the flow of information. IT is the nervous system of most organizations, yet too often IT is a barrier to process improvement and the efficient flow of information. When information is incomplete, inaccurate, late or difficult to access, we pay a huge price. Most companies discover their current IT processes comprise as much as 80% waste – non-value added services that consume time, money and resources but deliver only marginal usefulness. Lean IT applies to principles, systems and tools of process improvement to create quality information and leverage technology with one goal: to flow value to the customer!

What you will learn

  • Describe how to flow quality information to improve your organization's core business processes
  • Explain what it takes to successfully apply Lean to IT operations
  • Understand how Lean IT has been used in other organizations to drive millions in productivity gains
  • Recognize the common barriers to Lean IT and act to overcome them
  • Return to work with a plan of action to initiate positive change to integrate your IT department with the business

pdf AME Roadshow Flyer 2011

 

European Lean IT Speaker1st European Lean IT summit in Paris, France
October 13 & 14

Register online: http://www.lean-it-summit.fr/registration

Lean IT practices – From theory to application

This new workshop presents the next level of understanding in Lean information and technology. It will show you how to leverage the skills and knowledge of your IT staff to create sustained improvement. Attend this session to discover: How organizations create millions in productivity gains and monetary savings leveraging Lean IT, how to build quality information into your process improvements, how to effectively engage IT staff to become key players in Lean, how to apply Lean Thinking to technology and people to speed the flow of value to the customer.