Assignment
A new Vice President has just been transferred from marketing to take over manufacturing, His undergraduate degree was in engineering in addition to an MBA. He has not worked in engineering or operations for many years. Your three-person Lean transformation team now reports to him. You and your team meet with him in the afternoon of his first day on the job. He asks you to explain this "Lean thing". He asks you and your team to specifically help him understand the visual management system that is in place. In short, he does not understand what it all means.
In this assignment you are to design a PowerPoint presentation that will help him understand and answer the following questions:
1. Why is making everything visible so essential to the workplace?
2. Why is visual management so important to a Lean transformation?
3. What is a Gemba Walk? Why do we do this? What do we gain from it? Why should I participate?
4. If we are developing self-directed teams and utilizing them throughout the organization - What role(s) do our front line, middle, and senior leaders play?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.