John Bicheno, BSc (Eng), GDE (Witwatersrand), MA (Lancaster), MBA (Bradford), PrEng, CFPIM (APICS), FIOM, FSAPICS
Apart from the books and games given on this web site, John mentors several companies, and trains in the areas of Lean, Productivity improvement and measurement, and Quality in Britain, Germany, Denmark, and South Africa. He runs regular CPIM and Lean training programs in Denmark (for DRF) and participates in Lean programmes for The Manufacturing Institute Trafford Park.He has conducted many in-house Lean training programs, ranging from 1 day to 8 weeks.
John’s former operations and industrial engineering students are to be found in major manufacturing and consulting organisations (including C&L, Andersen, PW, McKinsey, World Class International) in Britain, Germany, Austria, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Six former masters students each run their own consulting businesses. He has supervised over 80 successful Masters theses and dissertations, the majority of them in the Lean area.
Organisations that he has mentored or consulted for include Jaguar Cars, Caterpillar, Reliance Gear, BNFL, Anglian Water, GEC, British Steel, Cooper Fuses, Shayler Cosmetics, Wolstenholme Int., Rolls Royce, Ford, UEF, English China Clays, Brink, Portmeirion Potteries, HWAM Heat Design, Corus, and numerous small businesses in service and manufacturing.
In 1999 he initiated and became Director of a new MSc programme in Lean Operations at Cardiff Business School. Modules of this unique part time programme are held at factory locations. Around 50 one-week on-site modules have been held at almost the same number of companies since the program began. The programme is now in its seventh year, and the course is always over-subscribed. He teaches on about half of the programme, and has supervised about 50 Masters student dissertations in the area of Lean.
In 2005 he helped initiate a new MSc in Lean Service that began at Cardiff Business School in 2006.
Last Updated: July 16, 2009