LSHE 2012 - Lean in Services and Higher Education: Transforming the Public Sector

Lean in Services and Higher Education: Transforming the Public Sector
University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
25?27 January 2012

www.pbs.port.ac.uk/conferences/lean

Due to a number of requests, we are extending the deadline for submission of abstracts/ case studies/ workshop proposals or papers for the upcoming “Lean in Services and Higher Education: Transforming the Public Sector” conference on 25-27 January 2012. The event is part of the continuing series of Lean in HE conferences subsequently held at the University of St Andrews, University of Warwick and Cardiff University.

Practitioners and Academics are invited to submit abstracts / case studies / proposal for workshops on their practice and or / research that would contribute to the understanding of high performance methodologies such as lean in higher education and the public sector. Contributions on all topics related to the practice, research, and teaching of Lean and other high performance methodologies (such as Six Sigma) are invited.

Themes:
Practitioner stream: focusing on case studies and workshops.
Academic stream: focusing on papers and theory building.

Practice and theory building for transformations in the public sector and higher education
Sustainable public services
Visual management ? how visualisation enables high performance
Transformations in industry ? learning from manufacturing
Research students’ track
Workshops

The extended deadline for the submission of abstracts / case studies / workshop proposals will be 21 August 2011, with formal notification of acceptance sent to successful authors via e-mail week commencing 31 August 2011. For further details and to register, please visit the www.pbs.port.ac.uk/conferences/lean.

We hope you will join us in Portsmouth for an exciting and fulfilling event.

To submit papers, abstracts, case studies or workshops, and if you have any questions or queries, please do contact Tammi Sinha on tammi.sinha-AT-port.ac.uk, copied to pbs.conferences-AT-port.ac.uk.

Best regards
Dr Tammi Sinha:
Programme Chair
Conference Committee

Mr Eric De Greef
Dr Tammi Sinha
Ms Jacqueline Seymour
Dr Christine Welch
Mr David Starkey
Mr Chris Milner
Dr Steve Martin, HOD Engineering and Management Coventry University