Vadim Lapidus
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Transformation of companies on the basis of Leadership, Lean Approach and 6 Sigma
Many companies in the world need significant management system transformations. Such changes should, first of all, decrease the use of compulsion, and focus the management system on the humanistic aspect. Moreover, production effectiveness of many Russian companies should be highly increased.
Many companies in Russia, largely production companies, need to reduce their resources, such as land, business premises, equipment, energy consumption, number of personnel.
The main proposition should become creation, development and application of company intellectual capital. Intellectual capital means a mixture of know-how, human assets as a total sum of competence and motivation, and relationship systems of the company.
We use ideas of “Compactization” that aims at reducing the main resources in value chains, and which are becoming very popular in the recent years. They are based on Lean approach, and their aim is a drastic increase of company effectiveness through reduction of production cycles, etc.
The term "Compactization" is used for the methodology to reduce them in conjunction with the concepts of Lean and 6 Sigma, which allows the reduction of production parameters redesigning production and management processes under the principles of Lean.
A company applying leadership principles to management can benefit in career management, goal-setting, growth of company intellectual capital and this practice has already shown a promising effect in practice of Russian companies.
The report studies examples of transformations using Leadership, Lean production and Quality principles and approaches.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Vadim Lapidus, General Director, Center Prioritet Consulting Center, Nizhny Novgorod.
Academician of Russian Academy of Quality Problems, Academician of International Academy for Quality, Member of American Society for Quality, Member of European Organization for Quality, Member of Society for Quality and Southern-Italian Society for Quality, Honorary president of International Guild of Quality Professionals (SIC).
Mr Lapidus studied radiophysics and electronics at Radiophysics Department of Gorky State University. He is a PhD candidate in radiocommunication and Doctor of Engineering in engineering systems management.
Vadim Lapidus gave lectures on quality management at Gorky State University (from 1981 to 1991). From 1995 to 1998 he worked as a Professor at the Department of New Methods of Product Quality Monitor and Control at Academy of Standardization Metrology and Certification. He is a visiting professor at Stockholm Higher School of Economy (St.-Petersburg), professor of Higher School of Economy (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod brunch), visiting МВА professor at Technical University (Nizhny Novgorod).
He has been repeatedly invited to give lectures on quality management methods abroad: The University of Tokyo and Keio University (Tokyo, 1994), The Georgia Institute of Technology (USA, 1995), University of Naples (Italy, 1996, 1997), and Tel-Aviv University and Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel, 1994, 1996).
Vadim Lapidus has over 40-years professional activity (consulting, lectures, publications) in the areas of standardization and total quality management, including: standardization and application of quality control methods, development of methods and tools in control, measurement and testing; he also tackles issues of leadership, motivation and quality improvement.
