Antoine Contal, Google

Antoine Contal, Google

Google’s secrets for removing waste from the World Biography: Antoine’s lifelong mission is to delight customers and end users. He honed this skill through diverse experiences, ranging from startup software engineer to digital product manager. As a Lean Coach, he helped IT departments and IT vendors to empower their teams and create more value. As a Google Solutions Engineer, he explores and shares technological innovations for Google’s largest customers. Google's secrets for removing waste from the world by Antoine Contal from Institut Lean...
Klaus Petersen, Solar Group

Klaus Petersen, Solar Group

Turn a disastrous ERP implementation into a successful one using Lean Company-wide ERP implementations are quite complicated, and unfortunately, they often turn into nightmares: long delays, cost overruns, business disruption, all this causing great damage to the company and the customers. The European sourcing and service providing company Solar started they own ERP implementation 4 years ago. After chaotic beginnings, they decided to capitalize on the lessons learned from their prior 5-year Lean journey to ensure a smooth, quality and customer-focused deployment of the...
Anju Saxena, Tata Consultancy Services

Anju Saxena, Tata Consultancy Services

Anju Saxena is working at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the Global Consulting Practice. A consultant with over 19 years of experience, she designs and leads service improvement and transformation initiatives across the globe. She is a certified ITIL Master. See the session about Fat to Fit: Recipe for a Lean IT Service Back to list of...
Alan Shalloway, NetObjectives

Alan Shalloway, NetObjectives

With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design- having written four books on these topics. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide. See the session about Managing Product Development Flow Across an IT Organization Back to list of...
Khuloud Odeh, Urban Institute

Khuloud Odeh, Urban Institute

The power of Lean to modernize mission-driven organizations What can Lean teach us about the improvement of non-profit business processes? In 2014, The Urban Institute, the Social & Economic Policy Research Center based in Washington DC in the US, turned to Lean to help modernize organizational processes from the inside out, beginning with their grant and contract proposal development process. Responding to requests for proposals is the primary method for Urban to obtain new projects and funding, and it was identified by 68% of surveyed staff as being challenging,...