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Building an Operational Excellence System That Delivers Results
Space To Think. Strength To Lead.
Designing and deploying Operational Excellence across a large manufacturing organisation requires far more than improvement tools or isolated initiatives. It requires leadership capable of aligning strategy, systems and people around a shared vision and executing that vision consistently across the organisation.
In this leadership forum, Simon Bugeja, Darin Fleming and Dean Dickinson come together to share the story behind a multi-year transformation programme that deployed a comprehensive Operational Excellence system across 47 manufacturing sites.
Each speaker played a distinct role in shaping the strategic direction, designing the improvement system and deploying capability across the organisation. Working as a tightly aligned leadership team, they built an approach that connected executive intent with daily operational practice.
This event provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from the leaders behind that journey and explore the leadership thinking and operational systems required to deliver sustained improvement at scale.
Meet the Speakers
Simon Bugeja
Senior Operations & Transformation Leader
Simon is a highly experienced manufacturing executive with a strong track record of leading operational transformation and delivering measurable performance improvement across complex manufacturing environments.
Darin Fleming
Operational Excellence Leader
Darin has more than three decades of manufacturing experience and has specialised in designing and deploying enterprise improvement systems aligned with Lean principles and the Shingo Model.
Dean Dickinson
Operational Excellence Coach
Dean is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Operational Excellence specialist with over 25 years of experience supporting organisations to improve performance, develop leadership capability and embed sustainable improvement systems.
Why Attend
Operational Excellence is widely discussed across the manufacturing sector. Successfully deploying it across a complex organisation is far more challenging.
Many organisations invest heavily in Lean initiatives and improvement programmes but struggle to create a system that delivers sustained operational performance.
This session explores how one leadership team approached that challenge by building a structured Operational Excellence framework that aligned leadership behaviour, improvement activity and operational management across the organisation.
The impact included:
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47 manufacturing sites aligned under a common operational framework
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160 Operational Excellence ambassadors developed across the organisation
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170 improvement projects delivered in a single year
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3,488 employee improvement ideas generated through daily Kaizen activity
These outcomes were achieved by building a coherent system that connected strategy, leadership and daily operational discipline
The Product Performance Health Check
During the session, Simon, Darin and Dean will share practical insight into the leadership journey and systems that underpinned the transformation. Topics explored will include:
Strategic Alignment
Creating a clear vision and deploying strategy across multiple manufacturing sites.
Designing the Operational Excellence System
Developing a structured improvement framework built around four core pillars.,
Embedding Operational Discipline
Introducing daily management systems, visual performance management and escalation routines.
Developing Capability
Building problem-solving capability across the organisation through structured improvement programmes.
Measuring What Matters
Assessing maturity and linking improvement activity to measurable operational and financial performance.
Who Should Attend?
These outcomes were achieved by building a coherent system that connected strategy, leadership and daily operational discipline
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Managing Directors
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Operations Directors
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Plant Managers
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Operational Excellence Leaders
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Continuous Improvement Leaders
Supporting the Future of Manufacturing
This event forms part of the launch of the Future of Manufacturing Foundation, a charity dedicated to promoting manufacturing as a career destination and connecting industry leaders with the next generation of talent.
A £167 donation per delegate is requested to attend the event, with all contributions supporting the Foundation’s work to develop the future of the sector.