Main Conference Day Two: Friday 30th April 2010

08:50 Chairman’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

ENHANCING AGILITY AND EFFICIENCY

Pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies have plenty of complexity to contend with, including R&D, manufacturing, supply chain and distribution. Using a process excellence programme to reduce complexity in process as well as to decrease response times to market conditions is a key differentiator and these sessions will give attendees the chance to hear what has worked and why as well as how companies have created passionate champions of process excellence in the business to ensure success.

09:00 KEYNOTE: From Lean Six Sigma To Process Excellence: Enhancing Efficiency And Agility

• Creating a Process Excellence deployment plan, creating awareness and initiating improvement projects for overall company benefit
• Solving problems in meeting customer requirements, achieving new product development goals, as well as optimisation of administrative, technical, production, maintenance, and managerial systems.
• Constructing the appropriate corporate strategy using Process Excellence tools and techniques to generate superior products and competitive profitability
• Leveraging Six Sigma to improve the repeatable portions of the R&D organisation's activities
• What does success look like? Best practice for performance measurement and securing ongoing investment in process excellence initiatives

David Everitt-Newton
Director of Operational Excellence & Master Black Belt
Carefusion

09:45 KEYNOTE: Never Mind The MBA: Designing Process That Delivers Results

• Getting everyone thinking on the same level: embedding process excellence into company culture
• Ensuring processes are continuously monitored, refined and redesigned to deliver maximum benefit
• Leveraging process excellence across the Enterprise: from regulation to HR to security to outsourcing to manufacturing
• Gauging success in different forms from the top line to the bottom line to employee satisfaction
• Using process excellence to manage and mitigate risk in company programmes and deliver increased performance and benefit

Tom Cochrane
Business Process Development Manager
Napp Pharmaceuticals

11:00 Successfully Leading Process Excellence Initiatives To Deliver Business Value And Increase Efficiency

• Identifying the appropriate use of Lean and Six Sigma tools and techniques in the Pharma industry: time to market, development, cycle time reduction, operational excellence
• Understanding the key criteria and knowledge for successfully deploying Process / Operational Excellence in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Transactional environments
• Launching and developing methodologies for improvements throughout the organisation
• Lessons learned from driving tangible benefits through to completion

Gary Friend
OPEX and Process Optimisation Leader
Actavis

11:45 Optimising Process And Performance Through Lean And Six Sigma For Business Advantage

• Ensuring process capability prior to actual deployment and production: strategy and planning for excellence and continuous improvement
• The importance of performance metrics and analytics in process optimisation: understanding the tools and techniques that can deliver success
• Lessons learned in leveraging Lean Sigma to deliver bottom line impact, reduce wastage and delivering consistency in process

Peter Lodge
Senior Quality Consultant
Gyrus Medical

13.30 Lean Thinking, Creativity And Innovation – Concordant Or Conflicting?

• The journey to apply lean sigma principles to drug discovery to improve the speed and quality of drug hunting
• Assessing the suitability of Lean Sigma as a vehicle for improvement in the creative and innovative environment of drug discovery
• Examining the changes that have been made to increase speed and quality of drug discovery and the benefits in the context of whether creativity and/or innovation have been hampered by the changes
• New ideas for how creativity, innovation and lean sigma might comfortably co-exist and perhaps even co-operate to mutual benefit

Craig Johnstone
Value Chain Leader, CV&GI
AstraZeneca

TECHNOLOGY, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

With the constant focus on cost, risk and operational performance, delivering real results from process excellence programmes has never been as important. These sessions will detail how industry leaders have leveraged their process approach to produce tangible results that allow them to push forwards in key areas. Leveraging tools and technologies such as Lean, Six Sigma and BPM is key in proving the value of process and these sessions will show the techniques used and the results achieved.

14:15 Achieving Process Excellence Through Best In Class Technology And Continuous Improvement

• Addressing the challenges of ensuring both quality and optimum efficiency in a competitive market
• Using Lean Six Sigma in production and R&D to achieve efficiency gains and embed agility into business process
• Ensuring ease of implementation and flexibility in systems used for daily process management and optimisation
• The importance of controlling process implementation, diagnosing potential deviations and seizing process improvement opportunities
• Future roadmap for Excellence at Sanofi Pasteur: what does success look like for us?

Dr René Labatut
Executive Director, Process Technology Improvement, Industrial Operations Division
Sanofi Pasteur

15:30 Smashing The Myth: “We Don’t Make Cars Here- Lean Sigma Can’t Help Us In Research”

• Examples of how we tackled problems which aren’t simple processes using lean sigma tools
• How we made a measurable difference to the hard and soft aspects of how we deliver value in pre-clinical drug research
• Highlights and pitfalls of running such projects based on experience of hands on project delivery

Graeme Moody
Team Leader, Lean Sigma Black Belt, CV&GI
AstraZeneca

16:15 Measure Twice, Cut Once: Understanding BPM Methods Before Implementing The Solution

• Developing a business process management (BPM) strategy to meet stakeholder needs
• Analysing, improving, designing and developing processes to deliver quick wins and tangible value
• Aligning technology, organisation, and facilities with the BPM strategy and design
• Leveraging the benefits of process automation through BPM to free up resource
• Identifying, clarifying and managing business benefits arising from process change

Bernard Albrecht
Programme Manager
Johnson & Johnson

17:00 Chairman’s Summary & Close Of Day Two