Alumnus To Speak on Lean Dynamics

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Stephen Ruffa, B.S. '82, aerospace engineering, will give the last Whiting-Turner Business & Entrepreneurial lecture of the fall semester on November 6 at 5 p.m. in the Kim Building lecture hall.

Ruffa's lecture is titled "Thriving in Uncertainty: How Leading Corporations Apply

'Lean Dynamics' to Drive New Innovation and Value." Ruffa is the author of Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits[LINK] and president of Lean Dynamics Research, a research, training, and management advisory firm focused on lean dynamics principles and practices.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception at 4:30 p.m. outside of the lecture hall.

Published October 29, 2008