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Welcome to the Lean Management Group Baltics!
The original LEAN Management Group Baltics (LMGB) was founded in the autumn of 2008 with athe main point of the forum to develop the Lean Management concept in Latvia and the Baltics (read about our history here), spread the information and create an organisation providing professionals a chance to exchange views via factory visits as well as allow business managers to mingle, get to know each other and thus act mutual sounding boards. If your company is interested in joining LMGB, please send a mail to office@prime.lv with contact details and we will get back to you promptly (read more about LMGB membership here).
LMGB Updates:
In November 2010 despite a tough flu making an imprint on some of the members, 20 participants had signed up to visit the East Metal wind-mill rotor cabine manufactury located in Daugavpils, South Eastern Latvia. During the course of 2010, a Danish team lead by Project Manager Martin Farup had put all functions together and devised the internal logistics and work stations’ positioning. The cabines, being the size of normal army tanks, where very impressive in size where the lay, awaiting the treatment delivering them a protective coating to deflect corrosion and rust once positioned offshore. As LMGB participants we had been invited to come with second opinions on how internal structures could be adjusted to improve performance via an increase in efficiency and worker motivation. The reports stemming from two groups healthily mixed with experierienced practitioners and learners, were by the local Manage-ment well received, and said to be put to good use as well as put before the overseas support- & HQ management team.
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At the end of January 2011 the LMGB has undergone changes to its management structure, with the two-year-interrim-board dissolving, as activities on part of the previous members never really took off. Instead, the forum largely run by two of the original founders, Interrim Chairman Christer Persson & Administrative Board Member/Secretary, Henrik Mjoman, called for members to submit ideas to increase the growth rate of the forum as well as securing funding. Ideas to alternate activities were put forward, upon a few members wishing for further specialisation. These were however deemed to alienate the vast majority for which the the forum originally was set up, as was the risk of foregoing the purpose to network among members for business and other. Those factors in combination with not securing suitable funding, nor solving the issue of attracting new & more members, and to adding to burden our chairman’s sudden departure due to ill-health, caused the original founders to reconsider. Under those circumstances the LMGB in its previous form as well as a Board has dissolved, appearing instead as a new financial entity, an NGO, operated by the previous adminstrative board member and co-founder Henrik Mjoman and Team, bent on resuming previous activities, improving both functionality as well as communication and introducing changes to improve the membership features where possible.
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Indicated in the original name LMGB – where the last letter ‘B’ stands for Baltics, another important feature is to see the Baltics as our market as the individual countries are too small to deliver a base for healthy information exchange and to spread the word of LEAN we need look at the subject on a larger scale to draw the benefits of learning in other countries and facilitate communication in between. From last year Henrik Mjoman via a recruitment project in 2009 established new contacts cross-border and thus opened up a window for new impulses, as well as in 2011 via new cooperation partner Explore Hansa the opportunity for businesses to connect on export markets and also share knowledge, is a reality. Thus we aim to make the new LMGB an organisation for practitioners, interested individuals and businesses in search of knowledge but not open to consultancies.
Stay tuned for more information – meanwhile if you’re interested to join and become member please send an e-mail office@prime.lv and let’s set up a fruitful meeting!
