I design, implement, coach, and improve the systems and processes that enable everyone in the organization to execute, standardize, and improve work.
How to bring lean and agile thinking to product development.
Knowledge work, such as product development, can be thought of as a "factory" with customers, products, and value- and non-value-adding activity.
Application of scrum as a tool to accelerate lean product development.
Expanding the reach of lean product development to dramatically improve cost, quality, and time to market.
1. How are other organizations driving Operational Excellence in general?
2. How are other organizations innovating product development in particular?
3. What are challenges that other organizations are facing with respect to Operational Excellence?
Alex Jones is a Lean Transformation Leader at Intel. He is responsible for driving organizational and process changes that increase quality, decrease cost, and accelerate time to market across Intel's product development value streams. Jones joined Intel in 1997 as an Industrial Engineer and has held a variety of positions in manufacturing, technology development, strategic planning, platform architecture, and lean leadership. You can learn more about Alex's involvement at the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit here.