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Work Experience
Senior Advisor
2017
Founding Chairman now handed over to CEO Dave Brunt
Member of the Editorial Board
2014
Planet Lean is a digital platform for the Lean Global Network and the wider lean movement
Chairman
2003 - 2017
Founded this non-profit education and research organisation as the source of Lean Thinking in the UK. Organised Lean Summits in the UK and Europe from 1997 onwards. Published Breaking Through to Flow, Creating Lean Dealers, Making Hospitals Work and Lean Thinking for the NHS.
2007
Senior Advisor
2007
Founded a network of 18 non-profit Lean Institutes with James Womack to spread lean thinking across the world. Joint Chairman of LGN with Jim Womack from 2007-2012.
2013
Senior Advisor
2013
Senior Advisor to this innovative lean startup offering a unique, hassle free solution for ecommerce providers and committed to exploring how lean thinking and lean startup practices can distinguish it from the competition.
Senior Advisor
1998
Founding Board Member of LEI from 1998 to 2010.
1997 - 2010
Editor in Chief and Board member of the International Commerce Institute
1997 - 2010
Advisor to the European ECR movement and Board member of the International Commerce Institute and Editor in Chief of the ECR Journal/International Commerce Review.
1989 - 2004
Professor of Management
1989 - 2004
Founding Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, the first academic research unit focused on lean thinking.
1993 - 2003
Principal (part-time)
1993 - 2003
Helped establish Unipart U as the first in-house corporate University in the UK to spread lean thinking across the Unipart Group of Companies.
1998 - 1998
Member of the Rethinking Construction Task Force
1998 - 1998
The Rethinking Cosnstruction report, chaired by Sir John Egan introduced lean thinking to the UK construction sector and led to the Movement for Innovation in Construction.
1985 - 1990
European Director
1985 - 1990
Co-Director of this global benchmarking project of the auto industry.
1977 - 1989
Senior Research Fellow
1977 - 1989
Applied research on European Industrial Policy at the Sussex European Research Centre and then on Innovation and the global auto industry at the Science Policy Research Unit