Penton's IndustryWeek Editor Patricia Panchak to Keynote Annual Lean Accounting Summit
To Discuss How Successful U.S. Companies are Surviving -- Even Thriving -- in Today's Hyper-Competitive, Fast-Changing, Low-Cost Economy
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Penton's IndustryWeek Editor Patricia Panchak is slated to keynote the 10th annual Lean Accounting Summit, October 22-23 in Savannah, GA. The event celebrates the Summit's decade anniversary by asking five keynote speakers to cast their vision for the next ten years of lean management evolution.
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As the editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek, Panchak is a widely recognized authority on business management and leadership issues. Through extensive research, she provides a window into the best practices of world-class organizations and provides the knowledge companies need to put the challenge of global competition in perspective. An accomplished storyteller and an animated, articulate speaker, Panchak inspires optimism in her audiences by filling her presentations with lots of valuable data and successful case studies.
Panchak is often called upon to deliver a one-of-a-kind take on the state of US, North American and / or global manufacturing -- a thought-provoking review of current economic date, plus a challenge of the manufacturing myths that impede the growth of companies and countries.
During her keynote presentation entitled "The Lean Culture Advantage" Panchak will discuss the role of culture in the emerging lean enterprise. She will highlight how successful companies transform their employees into entrepreneurs who own their work—and who are ready, willing and able to cut costs, to innovate products and services, to develop more effective work processes—and to grow the bottom line.
Panchak said, "Too many business leaders view employees as costs to be cut, rather than assets to be valued. Lean leaders know how to create a culture that develops employees to their full potential and to direct that potential toward growing the business."
Jim Huntzinger, Summit Founder and President of Lean Frontiers, explained this year's theme, "With this being the 10th anniversary of the Summit, we wanted to establish another marker, much as the first event did, and set a course for the next 10 years in lean business management practices. We carefully selected these individuals and the organizations they represent because they have important insights into what the future could and should hold."
The Lean Accounting Summit is produced by Lean Frontiers, founded by Huntzinger and business partner Dwayne Butcher. Lean Frontiers produces narrowly focused, lean‐related events including the TWI Summit and Lean HR Summit. The company also produces the Lean Coaching Summit in partnership with the Lean Enterprise Institute hosts the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange with a non‐profit organization by the same name. Lean
Frontiers hosts these events in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.
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