Associate Faculty
Our team consists of experienced trainers, facilitators and consultants. They all share the enthusiasm for employee engagement, continuous improvement and the managing of ideas in the workplace. Click on the pictures to get more information.
Jim Slavin
Andy Brophy
Jim is an involved member of his community who works with the complete size and need spectrum of organizations. He inspires trust, confidence, and performance from others. His approach to training and development is based upon a belief that each individual is the architect of his or her own success. Jim focuses on leadership development and alignment of organization culture. He is certified to facilitate Results-Centred Leadership (RCL), programs in developing personal responsibility (MBR and PRIDE), the Delfi Strategic Development Process (DSDP), and our Professional Selling Skills program (ACCISS). Jim specializes in getting high return on training investment through one-with-one coaching, using face-to-face or basic distance technologies.
Jim is past-chair of the Bonnechere River Watershed Project, an environmental stewardship group, and uses his free time for music, theatre, the outdoors and creative writing.
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Jim is past-chair of the Bonnechere River Watershed Project, an environmental stewardship group, and uses his free time for music, theatre, the outdoors and creative writing.
www.thedelfigroup.com
Andy Brophy is a Lean & Creativity Facilitator. He has been working in the lean field for the last ten years from manufacturing to test labs and from offices to hospitals. He owns his own consultancy business called Lean 2 Innovative Thinking specializing in lean and creativity & innovation.
He has a particular passion for developing and tapping into the creative potential of organization's employees. Andy also shares a passion for invention and innovation and has numerous ideas for new products at the early stages of market feasibility analysis.
Andy holds a 1st Class MSc in Lean Operations from Cardiff University and is Six Sigma Black Belt trained. His current book, published in October 2009, called Innovative Lean is focussed on the power of harvesting and implementing employee ideas and creating an innovative and empowered workforce. He is currently also writing a section of a new book for the Lean Enterprise Research Center at Cardiff Business School. In 2010 he is due to publish a co-authored book with Cliff & Jane Norman on Lean Healthcare with emphasis on Deming's System of Profound Knowledge and The Science of Improvement. This work is the first of its kind to integrate these two powerful improvement methodologies.
www.lean2innovativethinking.com
He has a particular passion for developing and tapping into the creative potential of organization's employees. Andy also shares a passion for invention and innovation and has numerous ideas for new products at the early stages of market feasibility analysis.
Andy holds a 1st Class MSc in Lean Operations from Cardiff University and is Six Sigma Black Belt trained. His current book, published in October 2009, called Innovative Lean is focussed on the power of harvesting and implementing employee ideas and creating an innovative and empowered workforce. He is currently also writing a section of a new book for the Lean Enterprise Research Center at Cardiff Business School. In 2010 he is due to publish a co-authored book with Cliff & Jane Norman on Lean Healthcare with emphasis on Deming's System of Profound Knowledge and The Science of Improvement. This work is the first of its kind to integrate these two powerful improvement methodologies.
www.lean2innovativethinking.com
Technology Partners
The electronic world has also taken hold in the field of managing employee ideas in the workplace. Our partners are software houses who have developed customized solutions for suggestion systems and continuous improvement processes. This leads quite naturally to a performance robust duo … fitting the PiT-Stop methodology to the appropriate software. The multitude of ideas generated by PiT-Stop can therefore be easily managed. Please click on the accompanying logos for more details.
target software solution GmbH is an independent globally operating software house focused on the development and implementation of SAP solutions for human capital management (SAP ERP HCM).
In addition to its own development of target Idea ManagementTM, the certified SAP Software Partner and its team of software developers and consultants works on the implementation of the SAP ERP HCM application for nonprofit organizations such as the World Food Programme and UNICEF, as well as the development of country versions.
target Idea Management is standardized software that supports all phases of the idea management process and is specially developed for use with SAP software. The application is certified by SAP AG as “SAP®-Certified – Powered by SAP NetWeaver”. The solution is currently in use to support the ideas of more than 600,000 employees worldwide, for the following companies:
- Audi AG (Germany, Hungary)
- Bayer Business Services GmbH (for approximately 30 companies inside and outside the Bayer Group)
- B. Braun Melsungen AG
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
- Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Die Schweizerische Post
- Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
- K + S AG
- Miele & Cie. KG
- Plansee SE (Austria)
- Rehau AG + Co
- SAP AG
- Siemens AG (Industry Sector)
- Volkswagen Navarra, S. A. (Spain)
- ZF Sachs AG
The portfolio of the parent company IBYKUS AG contains comprehensive IT-services. We thus focus on developing flexible software solutions for supporting application oriented business processes (records/form processing) as well as the problem-free integration of hard- and software into business related processes. Our products and services range from project conception, realization and introduction of solutions, their maintenance as well as the supply of hardware. We concentrate on specialist processes which mainly concern the administration of EU grants and subsidies for the agricultural and forestry sector; e-government, service processes and idea management.
www.ibykus.com | www.id-force.com
At FuseTalk Inc., we are passionate about collaboration. After all, businesses run on the energy of ideas, dialog, debate and discovery. To help generate and harness that energy, we are committed to making and supporting software products that make collaboration easy and cost-effective. As a result, our customers lead their markets because they share our passion - the passion to foster online collaboration to increase revenues, decrease operating costs and gain an edge in an increasingly competitive environment.
Most other forum based collaboration applications only allow one forum to run from a single installation. FuseTalk is unique in that the product is capable of pushing out N number of forums to different collaborative groups. Each of these forums can then controlled from a central area, and permissions for each forum can be controlled by the global administrator. A single installation of FuseTalk could run a thousand different forums, all with different access rights and users.
Bridging the collaboration gap is the key to FuseTalk's success. FuseTalk can consolidate existing legacy collaboration solutions like News groups, E-Mail and Mailing lists into one familiar easy to use interface. Aside from consolidating existing solutions FuseTalk can also integrate into your existing authentication schema, facilitating a seamless login.
Whether our customers need a simple discussion forum or a streaming on-demand video/audio solution, FuseTalk delivers the right solution at the right price. Over 2,000 organizations have chosen FuseTalk to deliver discussion forums and the power of collaboration to their stakeholders.
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Collaboration Partners
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