{"id":1129,"date":"2012-06-07T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2012-06-07T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T12:26:14","slug":"free-lean-thinking-training-sessions-at-kent-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/06\/free-lean-thinking-training-sessions-at-kent-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Lean Thinking training sessions at Kent Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School in partnership with Leading Edge Group, invite you to attend a free \u00bd day Introduction to Lean Thinking training sessions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadingedgescm.com\/assets\/uploads\/Lean_Management_Training_-_Kent_Business_School.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for further details of free half-day Taster sessions in Lean Management aimed specifically at the following sectors: Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Logistics, Healthcare, and Public Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions will introduce local business and organisation to the benefits of Lean Thinking and will introduce you to the principles behind taking a \u2018Lean\u2019 approach and how these principles can be used to realise greater efficiencies and profitability, along with promoting employee engagement.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction to Lean Thinking training session<br \/>\n<strong>Where:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Kent\u2019s Medway campus, opposite The Historic Chatham Dockyard<br \/>\n<strong>When:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 27th June 2012, \u00bd day session<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Respondents to a survey conducted in April 2012 of more than 150 professionals currently implementing Lean reported that the mean return on investment from implementing Lean is almost five to one.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency gains detailed by participants included better delivery performance, higher quality, improved employee productivity, flexibility and motivation, better management of inventory supplies and reduced costs.<\/p>\n<p>To book a place please follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/business\/courses\/leading-edge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the link here<\/a> or contact Cathy Norman of Kent Business School on 01227 827192 or by emailing <a href=\"mailto:kbsbusiness@kent.ac.uk?subject=Lean%20Management%20Taster%20Events\">kbsbusiness@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School in partnership with Leading Edge Group, invite you to attend a free \u00bd day Introduction to Lean Thinking training sessions. Click here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/06\/free-lean-thinking-training-sessions-at-kent-business-school\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,124,9889,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}