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ABOUT TSD
OUR LEADERS |
John Allen – President
John Allen is an internationally-known expert in lean systems and change management, who spent the last decade as president of Total Systems Development, designing and conducting lean training programs and implementing lean systems throughout the world for major multinational |
corporations and the US Air Force. His broad-based knowledge of military operations, textiles, chemical production, food service, assembly and vehicle manufacturing brings substantial presence to bear for the implementation of lean systems. He is a sought-after lean coach and mentor, combining a broad-based knowledge of lean organizational strategy with years of practical experience guiding industry leaders through the challenges in policy deployment, workforce engagement, |
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alignment and culture change that fall to those ultimately responsible for the success of a lean transformation effort.
As former Director of Training for Toyota's first North American plant (Georgetown, KY), Mr. Allen acquired his knowledge directly from those Japanese responsible for developing lean. His singular insight into the mechanics and culture of lean play an essential role in his mentoring many of those generals responsible for implementing the US Air Force's current service-wide lean effort. This insight also contributed to Mr. Allen's success in creating a "Lean Academy" for lean leaders in a large Asian-based supplier network, and he played a central role in the early development of the Ford Production System (based upon the Toyota Production System) and Ford's Cleveland engine plant winning the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing.
Mr. Allen is a recognized author, co-editing and writing much of the 500-page reference work Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide, published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He is a primary author of the Department of Defense Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Transformation Guidebook, as well as the USAF AFSO21 CPI Playbook (the US Air Force's guide to lean-CPI). Also, he has published numerous articles on the origins and operations of a lean system, such as: "The Realities of Culture Change and How It Worked at Toyota;" "Making Lean Manufacturing Work for You;" "Choosing the Right People;" "New Plant Start-up: A Case Study at Toyota;" and "Making Lifetime Employment a U.S. Reality: The Toyota Experience".
Mr. Allen is a frequent keynote speaker, lecturer for SME's lean public education programs, and seminar/workshop leader on such topics as "Executive Decision-making for Lean," and "Lean and Policy Deployment".
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