MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



The Lean Laboratory Startup

Dr John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management

Jan/24 Fri 10:00AM-11:30AM E51-315

Enrollment: see eventbrite link below
Sign-up by 01/24
Limited to 80 participants

 

The Lean Laboratory Startup

 

Then The Lean Laboratory Startup is a must attend event for you!

 

In this session, we will look at how a few simple Continuous Improvement tools (5S and Value Stream Mapping) have been successfully applied in several laboratories at MIT. You'll learn how these simple techniques will have  immediate impact on the work in your lab today.  We will explain the rationale behind these techniques through the systems and psychological studies of several notable MIT faculty, including Jay Forrester, John DC Little, Ed Schein, Douglas McGregor, and Kurt Lewin.  

 

Finally, we'll present our “90 minute recipe” to assist you in kicking it off in your lab.  Come with your current “headaches” in your laboratories with the expectation that we can take control of where we work!

Pre-requisites: Curiosity 101 and Sense of Humor 202.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lean-laboratory-startup-tickets-10246913795

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: John Carrier, (617) 939-4396, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU