GBMP Announces Line-Up of Shingo Institute Workshops for Business Improvement Professionals

Newton, MA, October 15, 2015 (Newswire.com) - GBMP, a licensed affiliate of The Shingo Institute, is accepting registrations for eight Shingo Institute workshops. With two chances to attend each of the four workshops, GBMP is proud to be able to help hundreds of lean practitioners gain access to all of the important workshops in the series. For the first time ever lean practitioners can complete the entire suite of Shingo Institute workshops in just four to six months.

The Shingo Institute is named after Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo, one of the world's thought leaders in management and improvement, whose techniques have become known as the Toyota Production System (TPS). Leaders around the world have invested a substantial amount of time and money on TPS initiatives. At the foundation of these initiatives are a number of tools that seem to promise exciting results, and some may even achieve positive results initially and in the short term, but almost all of these initiatives meet disappointing, if not unsatisfactory, ends. Leaders quickly find that lean tools such as SMED, 5S, JIT, etc., are not independently capable of effecting lasting change. The Shingo Model™ is a new way of thinking - introducing Guiding Principles on which to anchor improvement initiatives in your efforts towards ideal results and enterprise excellence.The Shingo Model™ principles apply to business leaders from any industry who are using Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, Just-in-Time, Quality Circles, or other improvement programs to achieve operational excellence.

The four cutting-edge workshops are Discover Excellence (a prerequisite for the other three workshops), Enterprise Alignment, Continuous Improvement and Cultural Enablers. All of the workshops feature two interactive days at a host site, multiple visits to the gemba and the opportunity to share experiences with like-minded professionals committed to achieving business excellence.

Rhode Island Workshop Dates:
November 18-19, 2015: Discover Excellence
December 16-17, 2015: Cultural Enablers
January 20-21, 2016:  Continuous Improvement
February 17-18, 2016: Enterprise Alignment

Idaho Workshop Dates:
March 23-23, 2016: Discover Excellence
March 24-25, 2016: Cultural Enablers
August 16-17, 2016: Continuous Improvement
August 18-19, 2016: Enterprise Alignment

More dates in locations in New York, New Hampshire, Texas and Massachusetts to come!

Visit www.gbmp.org and click on Events to learn more about and register for these and other exceptional Lean training opportunities. Organizations interested in hosting a Shingo Institute workshop should contact GBMP at 617-969-1396 or email us at [email protected]