Parallel Session 2.C: From staff to services - continuous improvement in action at the University of Cambridge
Tracks
Byron
Thursday, October 24, 2024 |
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM |
Byron Room, Hilton City Centre |
Overview
11:15am - 12:00pm
Aji Kuriakose, James Warner and Rebecca Shipley, University of Cambridge (D)
45min session
Details
James Warner, Histopathology Laboratory Manager in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Aji Kuriakose, Digital Systems Specialist in the Research Office will share their experiences of putting Lean principles into action at the University of Cambridge. Their improvement projects dealt with the tricky issues of improving staff onboarding and induction experiences and also positive changes made to the processing time of lab samples.
Speaker
Mr Aji Kuriakose
Digital Systems Specialist
Cambridge University
From staff to services - continuous improvement in action at the University of Cambridge
Biography
James Warner
Histopathology Laboratory Manager
University Of Cambridge
From staff to services - continuous improvement in action at the University of Cambridge
Biography
Miss Rebecca Shipley
Continuous Improvement Advisor
University Of Cambridge
From staff to services - continuous improvement in action at the University of Cambridge
Biography
Rebecca has worked the University of Cambridge since 2020 and has been part of the Continuous Improvement team since November 2021. She is an LCS accredited trainer and in 2023 received a distinction in a Level 4 Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship. Her interest in all things continuous improvement was piqued when she attended Introduction to Lean training and realised that there was a whole framework for what she thought was just common sense thinking. Rebecca loves getting involved in some process mapping and can be found extolling the virtues of 5S and the impact/difficult matrix to anyone who will listen.
She has presented at previous Lean in HE conferences and contributed to a chapter in "Hoshin Kanri in Higher Education - A Guide to Strategy Development, Deployment, and Management" (Balzer and Sinha).