Engineer, Entrepreneur, and an Award Winning Author
Getting the Right Things Done in a Digital World
How to Protect Your Core Business & Ignite New Growth
Description
The world has changed. Today, it is no longer enough to protect your core business, you must also Ignite New Growth using Digital methodologies. Operational Excellence (also known as ‘Lean Production’) and all the related methods provide an essential foundation, but they are no longer enough to ensure prosperity.
How do we remain relevant in this risky new world? How do we win this uncertain new game? What if ours is a brick-and-mortar business? Can we learn to harness the digital methods, tools and thinking? What changes do we need to make in our methods and thinking?
Prospering in our challenging new world entails developing ambidexterity – the ability to fluidly switch gears between the world of Operational Excellence and the world of free-wheeling Innovation. How do these worlds differ? How are they similar? How do we apply the lessons of one to the other? Fortunately, one provides an excellent foundation for the other. How do we harness these synergies? What are the blockers & how do we avoid them?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Pascal Dennis is a professional engineer, entrepreneur, and an award winning author. He is President of Lean Pathways, an international executive mentoring practice, and co-founder of Digital Pathways, a firm focused on igniting new Growth using Digital methods. Since 2000 Pascal and his team have supported leading international firms in a range of industries including automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, energy, health care and financial services.
Pascal’s focus is Strategy execution with an emphasis on financial services, manufacturing, and consumer goods. Pascal’s personal practice comprises mentoring Boards and Senior Leaders, helping to develop and deploy Smart Growth strategies, and building management systems that sustain results. Pascal has authored six books and is a four-time winner of the Shingo Prize for Excellence. His latest book is Harnessing Digital Disruption – How Companies Win with Design Thinking, Agile and Lean Startup (Taylor & Francis, New York 2021).
Pascal is licensed by the Professional Engineers of Ontario and is a graduate INSEAD business school, and the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto. Pascal is also a musician & composer and has released four albums of original music. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Pamela, and family. For more information please consult Pascal’s Amazon page or LinkedIn page.
