The ABC’s of Lean: Transformation through Actions, Best Practices and Coaching

Why attend LCI Congress?

As an owner, you drive the industry demand by promoting Lean projects and supporting designers and trade partners in their productivity, development and execution. By attending LCI Congress, you will meet other successful owners who have embraced Lean design and construction and gain a broader insight from their perspectives on the process. Join peers from across the industry and gather ideas you can implement to take your next project to a new level of collaboration.

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Why attend LCI Congress?

Architects and designers can holistically transform the culture of the industry by being engaged throughout the entire project. At LCI Congress, you will hear other Lean in design practitioners enforce the message that Lean isn’t just about cross-cutting velocity – it‘s about enhancing projects and ensuring on-time delivery without compromising value to the owner. As a member of the design community, you will leave LCI Congress with the latest Lean and integrated project planning tools and techniques needed to achieve design excellence and guide your team with sound decision-making methods.

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Why attend LCI Congress?

General contractors who cultivate a collaborative team culture with owners, designers and trade partners at the onset of the project experience more frequent on-time, on-budget delivery. At LCI Congress, you will hear honest, transparent stories of success and failures from other project team members to help you start or advance your Lean culture transformation. Bring back valuable takeaways you can apply in the field to eliminate waste, create reliable flow and improve safety.

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Why attend LCI Congress?

Trade partners and all Lean stakeholders play a key role in universally changing the culture of the industry. You have the power to encourage collaboration and place a priority on a Lean culture of continuous improvement within your project team or across your entire organization. Attending LCI Congress will equip you with realistic ideas and goals to apply in the field that will immediately promote safer, more efficient and more enjoyable work environments.

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Why attend LCI Congress?

As a Lean professional, you and your high-performing teams know that the more collaboration there is within the Lean community, the more effective each moving part can be. During LCI Congress, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other professionals from all facets of the Lean design and construction community and expand your network, ensuring inspiration across the board. Learn from Lean thought-leaders and walk away with ideas you can begin implementing immediately.

See the scrolling list of Lean professional companies represented at last year’s LCI Congress! (Click here to download a pdf list)

For a deep-dive into Lean topics specific to your role, participate in a half-day, one-day or two-day course during the Monday-Tuesday Learning Days. Attendees can reference the track and experience level of each learning day session to choose accordingly.

The LCI Research Committee is offering three 90 minutes sessions on Tuesday to hear about and contribute to three of their initiatives.

Updating and Expanding the Last Planner System®
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
This LCI-funded research presents preliminary results seeking to extend the functions the Last Planner System® is designed to support, plus improve the performance of current functions in these areas: project master planning, phase planning, learning from breakdowns, metrics development, and LPS in design.

Defining a Lean Deployment Planner Procedure
10:30 a.m. – Noon
This LCI-funded research project is designed to help project teams define a consistent approach toward planning the integration of Lean principles into delivery processes. A structured process for Lean deployment planning.

Validation: A Structured Approach for the Owner to Validate their Business Case Description
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Lessons learned and implementation guide to project validation.

Validation is a critical step in the early phase of a project. This research seeks to develop a practical implementation guide, along with sharing lessons learned from leading organizations that are practicing effective validation.

You can select these sessions when you register for Congress.  If you have already registered and would like to add one of these sessions, please email Julia Shellhouse jshellhouse@leanconstruction.org and she will add to your registration.

The core program occurs on Wednesday and Thursday of LCI Congress week. Both LCI Congress core program mornings begin with welcoming remarks followed by a featured keynote speaker’s Lean message to set the tone for the rest of the attendee’s day.

Next, attendees head to breakout presentations led by industry practitioners from all project team roles. Presentation formats include panels that combine two complimentary Lean stories, Lean Gallery poster presentations, Live Labs, and individual presentations. The LCI Congress is a great opportunity to take advantage of networking breaks. Attendees can reference the track and experience level of each presentation to choose accordingly.

Take advantage of your networking breaks built into the schedule, including the breakfast and lunch each day. The core program will end Thursday afternoon with a closing keynote speaker, so make sure you stick around!

Friday, Oct. 23

Gemba Day is the last day of LCI Congress and gives attendees the chance to “go to the work” and apply what they have learned throughout the week. Attendees can register for their preferred job site or manufacturing shop and be transported by bus to witness how others are using Lean.

A Gemba Training is typically repeated twice during the Wednesday-Thursday core program and is supplemental, not required, for those attending a Gemba Walk on Friday or those wanting to make their Gemba Walks more effective.

Practitioners often find just as much value in the networking that takes place at LCI Congress as they do in the presentations. All attendees can look forward to reconnecting with friends and building new relationships at the Exhibit Hall Sneak Peek reception on Tuesday evening and the short networking breaks built into the core program.

Take advantage of being in the same location as your industry peers who share the same passion for continuous improvement!