Join this workshop to hear a unique approach and lessons learned from Northern Trust on how they have leveraged OKR principles to bind together their global Investment Operations Outsourcing organization and their transformation initiatives. Rush will also share how they have embedded OKR into their OPEX and transformation frameworks.

·       An evolution of Northern Trust’s Investment Operations.

·       Outsourcing the transformation journey from lean to automation and analytics

·       Overcoming challenges with organizational alignment by leveraging OKR

·       Deployment of a quarterly planning cadence to refine key transformation goals 

·       Driving alignment by creating a common language amongst the global operations organization

·       Having a clear understanding of what successes look like and measuring them along the way

Rush Fozo

Senior Vice President, Investment Operations Outsourcing
Northern Trust

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Understanding the organizational and human factors is of paramount importance in formulating and implementing a transformation strategy. Marathon Petroleum Corporation has adopted the practice of evaluating the organization’s preparedness for change and the extent of change-related fatigue as factors informing their transformation methodology. Simultaneously, their strategy is characterised by well-defined business objectives and a human-centred approach. This workshop will showcase how they have tied these key elements and metrics into their overall transformation strategy and focus on the below areas:

·       Sharing the business outcomes-based approach and re-imagining the way the company works

·       Understanding different levels of organizational maturity based on change readiness assessment

·       Examining Marathon's tailored assessment techniques and lessons learned

·       Identifying gaps and the biggest opportunities for transformation and change maturity

Jacques McGregor

Vice President, Digital Transformation
Marathon Petroleum Corporation

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Margarita Panzer

Director, Enterprise Change Readiness
Marathon Petroleum Corporation

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This session will look at effective models and approaches to build an integrated Enterprise Process Architecture to drive process capabilities and keep up with your transformation requirements.

·       Defining, developing, and maintaining enterprise process architecture from value streams

·       Visualize enterprise process architecture through enterprise process modelling across BU's

·       Leveraging advanced automation and analytics tools to drive a greater level of operational excellence and business process resiliency

·       Mitigating operational risk, improving governance through operational and process automation

Ashutosh Chaudhari

Senior Director, Process & Automation
Cisive

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Stakeholder management is crucial when driving transformation especially when transformation starts from the middle level (neither top down nor bottom up). Identifying and effectively communicating and managing the stakeholders who are often in senior leadership positions can be challenging. This session will share common challenges and practical approaches in managing stakeholders.

·       Understand the imperative for effective stakeholder management

·       Identify the right stakeholders and map them to personas

·       Develop effective engagement approaches, including an innovative “use case” approach.

·       Apply the right measurements and governance

·       Discussing the stakeholder management strategy within your own organizational context

Ryan Mayer

Head of Healthineer Performance System – Americas
Siemens Healthineers

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Your market industry is changing at lightning speed and evolving before our eyes. Ground-breaking “disruptors” are changing the world that we live in. Think computer-based crypto-currencies, self-driving cars, sustainable energy, and privately-funded reusable spacecraft, to name a few. Through Business Agility, organizations can continuously evolve their strategy, goals, and culture, decreasing the risk of falling behind.

Join this dynamic workshop to hear how you can develop and drive successful agile transformation:

• Accelerate innovation and build adaptivity into your transformation strategies through Business Agility
• Build a strong foundation of stable culture through the values and language of David Marquet's Intent-Based Leadership
• Create measurable outcomes that are aligned throughout all levels of the organization by mastering Scaled OKRs
• Adopt an Agile Performance Management strategy that aims to create a more dynamic, responsive, and collaborative approach to managing employee performance

Sponsored by: Hyperdrive Agile

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Steve Claus

Vice President of Business Agility
Hyperdrive

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Join this interactive workshop to see how problem solving supported by AI can engage everyone in your organisation to deliver stronger financial returns

·       Learn why Lean implementations don’t typically lead to a sustained Continuous Improvement culture

·       Discover how to mobilise Continuous Improvement to become a growth driver

·       Learn how digital tools and AI can accelerate a sustained improvement culture

Sponsored by: Kaizapp

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Nick Racster

CEO & Founder
KaizApp AG

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Despite transformation efforts, many companies are still riddled with manual processes and unstructured data which is hindering these attempts. This session will take a deep look into how we can turn this seemingly overwhelming challenge into opportunities that lead to positive transformation results. In this workshop, we will:

·       Explore IBM’s AI Assistants that bring the power of automation and generative AI technology to employees’ hands

·       Learn how to get started with use cases for driving adoption of generative AI and improving employee productivity

·       Get hands-on experience with IBM watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.ai to build a process for streamlining work and freeing up employees to focus on higher value tasks

Join IBM technical experts, Jeff Goodhue and Ryan Sparks, for this exciting hands-on experience. Please bring your laptop; we will provide access to all of the tools you need to complete the hands-on lab.

Jeff Goodhue

Principal Business Automation Technical Leader
IBM

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Ryan Sparks

Advisory Business Automation Tech Leader
IBM

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An important part of any transformation is optimizing what you already have. Amongst the biggest assets of any organization are their people, their teams and their leadership. This interactive workshop session focuses on a goal-oriented approach to aligning customer needs and colleague capabilities in a compliant way to deliver commercial outcomes.

·       Working through our eco system to understand where you are in your journey

·       How to optimize each element of the eco system utilizing known improvement methodologies with a different approach i.e. lean, agile, CI

·       Join the dots from strategy to operations to delivery – overcome the barriers

·       Establish aligned goals to achieve transformation momentum

Sponsored by: Neon Partnerships

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Neil Chapman

Director
Neon Partnerships

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Nicola Moran

Director
Neon Partnerships

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Stephen Donne

Head of Transformation Delivery
Nottingham Building Society

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This highly engaging and dynamic workshop will address transformation challenges and best practice by having fun! Starting with a simulation game, you will learn about the essentials of what it takes to drive flow and develop best practice OPEX methods. The hands-on session is also designed in such a way to ensure that that you will walk away with key insights on practical steps to tackle transformation scenarios and visual transitions.  

• Fast moving challenge using “Sticklebricks” as a medium
• Simulates transition from traditional manufacturing to fast flow cell
• Touches best practice methods to move to OPEX
• Focuses on the importance of Quality first
• Set-up in a competitive teams scenario
• Hands-on demonstrable and visual transition

Sponsored by: Explic8

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Ian Nicholls

CEO
explic8

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Over the past year, Cargill has expanded Lean Six Sigma structured problem-solving accessibility, increased usage, and standardized learning processes throughout its global enterprise. Capability building offerings today range from White Belt to Master Black Belt with blended learning classes also available in English, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish. The focus now shifts to implementing a closed loop system that reduces end-to-end deployment variation from defining an initial project and completing training to enabling and sustaining a population of problem solvers and a global team of enduring practitioners.

In this session, you will learn to: 

• Define your deployment process and identify its stakeholders 

• Discover the variation in and between deployment sub-processes 

• Use data and listening posts to reveal what’s working and what’s not 

• Rely upon governance to guide cycles of refinement and improvement 

• Build Competency-based learning paths as a complement to Belt-level training

• Understand what the Knowing – Doing Gap is and deploying a strategy to close it 

Sponsored by: OpusWorks

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Joseph LaCount

Corporate Continuous Improvement Leader, Global Operations
Cargill

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Rob Stewart

President, CEO, co-Founder
OpusWorks

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Dan Rice

COO
OpusWorks

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The biggest risk to an enterprise is its blind spots — in how work is performed, its operational processes, and organizational data. Uncovering these blind spots is the first step to achieving end-to- end process excellence. This interactive workshop will focus on:

-       Starting on the right foot: understanding how the organization runs and where the opportunities are.

-       Identifying the project: start with a targeted outcome to provide value quickly.

-       Building the business case: how to present the project internally for approval.

-       Expanding the scope: let the results drive the next step.

-       Operationalizing: turning your one-time project into a continuous improvement effort

This session will include real experiences across a range of industries.

Sponsored by: Mindzie

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James Henderson

CEO
Mindzie

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Commitment to change is a vital first step in any transformation journey that ensures people come along on the change journey. Without a well-defined process or prioritizing it as the first step, transformation often fails or backtracks as people are left behind. By participating in this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to learn from case studies that highlight the essential processes and principles involved in building commitment for change. Moreover, you will have the chance to apply these learnings to your own transformation journey.

·       Why commitment to change is critical to the success of your transformation initiative?

·       Why is it challenging to build commitment to change?

·       Introducing a practical framework to build comment to change

·       Group exercises to apply these principles to your change scenario to advance your transformation journey