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• Lean Coffee Chat Grand Rapids

  • When
    Thursday, July 19, 2018
  •  
    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    50 Ottawa Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (Office is located below the ramp, first floor)
  • Spaces left
    4
  • Registered
    16 registrants

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  Do you love coffee (or tea)? Do you love networking, sharing lean best practices and solving lean problems together? If yes, we are rolling out a new informal program called Lean Coffee Chats! We will have 60-90 minute sessions in different locations around Michigan.

  What are the benefits?

  • Leverage our membership knowledge base
    
  • Focus on implementation of lean tools
    
  • Opportunity to network
    
  • Share best practices
    
  • Stay connected with other MLC members
    
  • ALL FOR FREE for members (+ you can bring a non-member guest for FREE too!)
    

  What a typical agenda will look like:

  • Meet and greet
    
  • Lean implementation topic and brainstorm - bring a topic suggestion or come ready to ask for help with a lean issue you are encountering
    
  • Learn about MLC and upcoming events
    
  • Networking

  Please park in the Ottawa Fulton Ramp, parking will be validated.

  
  

  The City of Grand Rapids will be our host.

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• Webinar: “Prioritizing lean projects at the State of Michigan: Going from FIFO to Strategic Alignment”

  • When
    Thursday, July 19, 2018
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    https://zoom.us/s/724216319
  • Spaces left
    237
  • Registered
    13 registrants

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  The Office of Performance and Transformation (OPT) is engaged by all agencies within the State of Michigan to help execute their process improvement initiatives. However, OPT is limited by the availability of certified facilitators and must prioritize which projects will be implemented. OPT wanted to prioritize Lean project requests from all agencies to be able to assign their limited resources to the most important projects.

  Using the Allovance platform, OPT was able to strategize, compare, quantify, score, and select Lean projects for implementation. This webinar will talk about our engagement with OPT and how Allovance can help government agencies in similar positions.

  Speaker: Sherif Farghal

  Co-hosts: Holly Grandy-Miller and Francine Wresinski

  As CEO of Allovance and founder of Pyramid Consulting International, Sherif Farghal has been recognized internationally as a thought leader, helping organizations make big decisions on what projects to pursue that best align with strategic priorities and achieve long term growth and sustainability.

  His work in removing bias from decision making has been leveraged by clients in multiple industries.

  With a PhD in Civil Engineering and Construction Management from the University of Michigan, Sherif has been working with clients for over 20 years while refining his algorithms and methodology, bringing discipline and science to the art of decision making.

  It will be a joint webinar with Holly Grandy-Miller and Francine Wresinski from the Office of Performance and Transformation at the State of Michigan.

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• 8th Annual Conference - LEAN: Learn, Educate and Network

  • Start
    Wednesday, August 08, 2018
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    Friday, August 10, 2018
  •  
    4:45 PM
  • Location
    Hagerty Center at Northwestern Michigan College 715 E Front St, Traverse City, MI 49686
  • Spaces left
    190

  Click here to register! We are using a new registration site for the conference. 
  

  If you are a member, please use the link in the email that was sent to you!

  We have 118 attendees signed up and 19 guests! 

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• Lean 101

  • When
    Friday, September 28, 2018
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Dart Container 500 Hogsback Rd., Mason, MI 48854 Building 6
  • Spaces left
    29
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  Time for sessions 1-4 is 8:30am – 4:30pm, Testing Day Time TBD. 

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• Lean 102

  • When
    Friday, November 09, 2018
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Dart Container 500 Hogsback Rd., Mason, MI 48854 Building 6
  • Spaces left
    30
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  Time for sessions 1-4 is 8:30am – 4:30pm, Testing Day Time TBD. 

  NOTE: Membership fee is $90 and if you become a member today or by the event you only pay the member registration fee of $60 for this event.
  

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• Lean 103

  • When
    Friday, December 14, 2018
  •  
    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Dart Container 500 Hogsback Rd., Mason, MI 48854 Building 6
  • Spaces left
    30
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  Time for sessions 1-4 is 8:30am – 4:30pm, Testing Day Time TBD. 

  NOTE: Membership fee is $90 and if you become a member today or by the event you only pay the member registration fee of $60 for this event.
  

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• Lean Application

  • Start
    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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  • End
    Friday, January 18, 2019
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Dart Container 500 Hogsback Rd., Mason, MI 48854 Building 6
  • Spaces left
    30
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  Time for sessions 1-4 is 8:30am – 4:30pm, Testing Day Time TBD. 

  NOTE: Membership fee is $90 and if you become a member today or by the event you only pay the member registration fee of $60 for this event.
  

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• Bronze Prep Exam

  • When
    Friday, February 22, 2019
  •  
    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Dart Container 500 Hogsback Rd., Mason, MI 48854 Building 6
  • Spaces left
    30
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  You are responsible for paying for your own test fee. Refer to the SME Bronze webpage for current pricing. Click here. 
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  If you have any questions please call Jerry Browne at 517-364-2531.  
  

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