BTOES EXCLUSIVE SLIDE DECK: Ensuring that the Executive Board is Bought in to Sustain a Successful OpEx Program

We are proud to announce one of our keynotes at Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry Awards (BTOES19) is Bill Owad, Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence at Cardinal Health.

Bill is Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence at Cardinal Health where he specializes in strategies and tools that support the pursuit of a lean enterprise. He also supports the extension of Operational Excellence external to Cardinal Health as the executive sponsor for the company’s relationships with the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Partner Program. Moreover, Cardinal Health has trained > 20,000 employees to look for continuous improvement and achieved significant economic benefit to their organization. Setting an example for an Operational Excellence success story.

His keynote will focus on:

'Ensuring that the Executive Board is Bought in to Sustain a Successful OpEx Program' which offers the following exceptional takeaways:

How to engage and educate executive leaders and management in OpEx?
Getting the leadership team to understand the end to end value stream
Demonstrating strategy alignment with OpEx benefits, efficiency, productivity, top line growth and cost savings
Communicating the expecting operating system that is to be present in all areas of the business, culture and leadership behaviors, metrics, diversity and talent management

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More About Bill

Bill, Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence specializes in the strategies and tools that support the pursuit of a lean enterprise. Working with a team of nearly 150 Operational Excellence staff members and coaches aross Cardinal Health, Bill is responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise approach to Operational Excellence at Cardinal Health, ultimately improving the value delivered to the company’s customers.

In addition to his role as Senior Vice President, Bill also supports the extension of Operational Excellence external to Cardinal Health as the executive sponsor for the company’s relationships with the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Partner Program, the Healthcare Value Network, The Ohio State University Fisher College Center for Operational Excellence and the Conference Board Quality Council. During his tenure, Bill has held several positions within Operational Excellence and has served as the primary architect of the company’s enterprise-wide deployment of Operational Excellence, which, over eight years, yielded significant improvements in customer loyalty, employee engagement, operational performance and working capital utilization.

About Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health is a Fortune 500 health care services company that specializes in distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products, serving more than 100,000 locations. It also manufactures medical and surgical products, including gloves, surgical apparel and fluid management products. Furthermore, it operates the largest network of radiopharmacies in the United States. Cardinal Health provides medical products to over 75 percent of hospitals in the United States.

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