The Operational Excellence summit in Hamburg exceeded my expectations.
Join the discussion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_the-future-of-operational-excellence-activity-7077182582664142848-dfJC If you had a similar conference in your areas of interest, what themes would emerge?
After all the build-up, the Operational Excellence summit in Hamburg exceeded my expectations.
The risk, of course, with these things is that it’s a self-congratulatory snoozefest of people sharing their success stories — which sound great, in their context, but don’t help you in your own work. Honestly, I have been to a few conferences like that!
I took it seriously that this was an attempt at a ‘summit’ — considering key issues, from multiple perspectives, learning together. And, joy of joy, so did everyone else!
The perspectives of speakers and attendees — from all over the world, different industries, different approaches — were varied indeed. Technology, applicabilty of lean and operational excellence methods of all kinds, challenges from the #economy and competition.
Yet many others in the post-event analysis have picked up underlying themes, and the biggest one of all? People. Not as #humanresources, not from a #management perspective, but understanding ourselves, our teams, our partners and supply chain and — most importantly — our customers.
I went to town a bit on my presentation (which, of course, was much too long really for the time available — sorry!) — which is attached.
I covered:
•Living in a TUNA world
•Three Horizons — and a survey — results in the slides!
•Did we learn anything from Covid? Ways of working, ways of thinking
•Climate crisis and the expectations of our people?
•Strategy in a TUNA world: why does strategy usually fail?
•‘AI’, Autonomous Enterprises and DAOs; autonomation
•Finding competitive advantage:
•systems | complexity | cybernetics: viable systems and beyond
•Requisite Agility, balancing agility with innovation; dynamic capability
•Open Eyes and dynamic strategy
•It’s all about the people — and the systems
If you had a similar conference in your areas of interest, what themes would emerge?
