Date: 2010-11-10 Category: Events
Lean Computing for SMEs
Thursday 18th November 2010
Ty Crawshay building, University of Glamorgan
5.15pm - Arrival & refreshments
5.45pm 6.45pm - Workshop
7pm - Close
Guest Speaker: Paul Hilder, Managing Director of The Open Source Software Company
’Lean Thinking is a business philosophy that emanated from Japan and has been used by Japanese companies, such as Toyota, to become the leaders and the biggest companies in their fields. The last twenty years has seen the introduction of Lean across a range of sectors and industries in the UK, including the automotive sector, logistics, insurance, manufacturing and even the Health Service.
However, many of the aforementioned industries have failed to be as successful as they could be, with Lean, because of a fundamental failure to understand or to utilise Information Technology IT in an appropriate fashion. The Health Service is a prime example of this. Matching IT to business processes or business processes to IT seems to be one of the major problems for companies
Many of these problems are present in small, medium and large sized enterprises, where there is often a fundamental mismatch of IT to process, a failure to exploit IT even when it has been purchased and the classic mismatch of different IT systems.
This workshop will introduce Lean as a concept and will explain how Lean and IT concepts like virtualisation could benefit SMEs IT functions and potentially reduce costs.
About the speaker
Paul is the MD of The Open Source Software Company, which specialises in matching IT to business processes. Part of his role within the company has been to act as a Lean consultant to others. He has specialised in the Financial and Legal Services sectors and in the Construction Industry. Paul is a published author in both Information Technology and Business Law, and completed an MBA in Lean Supply Chain Management, at Cardiff Business School in 2009.
