Niklas Modig

Lean expert, best-selling author and researcher inspiring companies to implement lean and operational excellence

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Niklas is my man on LEAN. He has spellbound my top leadership on several occasions, by showing us how a different perspective uncovers new areas of improvement. He is refreshingly energetic, well articulated, and to the point.

Hans Christian Holte

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Reasons to book Niklas Modig

He is recognized as one of the leading authorities within lean, operational excellence and customer orientation.
Niklas is also a global speaker and has been inspiring and supervising companies and organisation in more than 40 different countries.
He is a multi-awarded teacher and speaker, who is often recognized as one of the most pedagogical and inspirational speakers within his field

Keynote speaker Niklas Modig is an inspirational person, who knows how to engage any kind of audience and keep them interested throughout his talks. Niklas is an academic with tremendous expertise within lean and operational excellence. Niklas is the author of the best-selling book “This Is Lean – Resolving the Efficiency Paradox” and was selected as one out of 101 Super-talents in Sweden by the weekly business publication Veckans Affärer in 2012.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER NIKLAS MODIG: Defining Lean and Operational Excellence

Lean is the most spread management concept in the world. It is applied within all types of functions in almost every industry. Recent research however shows that there are much more to learn.

In this lecture, one of the leading lean speakers – Niklas Modig – will give you a deeper understanding of what operational excellence is really about. As the only foreign researcher in the world, Niklas has spent thousands of hours inside Toyota Japan decoding their philosophy and way of working. He will share his latest insights and help us explore how we can take our improvement initiatives to the next level and resolve the efficiency paradox.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER NIKLAS MODIG: Lean Change Management

Lean Change Management is a workshop aiming to help managers to understand the core features of lean management and change management. The workshop is applicable for all types of industries, directed to executives at all managerial levels and appeals to both novices and experts.

The intention of the workshop is to cover all basic aspects that an executive needs to know in order to lead and drive a lean transformation program. What is a lean operations strategy? How is it implemented? How is a lean culture developed? What is the role of the management? Why do organizations fail and what are the main success factors?

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER NIKLAS MODIG: Lean healthcare

Lean started to spread into the service industry for more than ten years ago. Today it is extensively used within healthcare. Almost every hospital in Scandinavia is utilizing lean – or similar “flow” oriented concepts – in order to improve the situation for their patients. The aim is to eliminate queues, waiting time, waste, inefficiencies and bureaucracy in order to improve quality, flexibility and process flow. There is unfortunately still a lot of misunderstandings regarding what lean is and especially how it can be adopted within healthcare.

In this lecture Niklas Modig will share his latest insights regarding lean healthcare. He will share a variety of cases from both private and public hospitals in Sweden.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER NIKLAS MODIG: The efficiency paradox

Efficiency is one of those concepts that everyone uses but very few understand. During this lecture Niklas Modig argues that most individuals and organizations have an incorrect understanding of how to increase “true” efficiency. We tend over focus on individual and functional performance, and by doing so, we only sub-optimize our organizations by developing “oceans of efficient islands”.

Research shows that these island organizations can be extremely problematic. Even if their metrics indicate that all of their islands are efficient, the system is NOT! Why? The more they try to squeeze out from each island the more they will loose sight of their customers. This will in turn develop a situation where the organization lack understanding of what true value creation is. The collection of islands become a powerful engine in producing self-generated waste and problems. Instead of fulfilling the needs of their customers the organization panics and turn on “flight mode”. In fact, the more efficient we think we are the more inefficient we will be.

During this lecture Niklas will explain how to resolve this efficiency paradox.

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Customer Reviews

Hans Christian Holte Norwegian Directorate of Taxes

Niklas is not just another speaker on lean. He makes the concept lean easy to approach with his deep knowledge and logical story-telling. He presents his findings in a way that is engaging and easy to understand. He was greatly appreciated by the management group.

Mikael Stöhr President and CEO , Coor

Niklas Modig

Lean towards a change in efficiency

Niklas Modig is a researcher at the Center for Innovation and Operations Management at Stockholm School of Economics and is one of the leading authorities within lean and operational excellence. He has been living for extended periods in Japan and reads, writes, and speaks Japanese fluently.

As the first and only foreign researcher in the world, Niklas was given access to conduct an in-depth study of Toyota Motor Corporation’s most high-performing service systems. He has spent thousands of hours inside Toyota trying to understand the depth of their philosophy.

Niklas currently works as a supervisor and strategic facilitator for various multinational companies and organizations, such as Anticimex, AstraZeneca, ABB, ComHem, Ericsson, Nordea, Saab Group, Scania, Siemens, SEB, Vattenfall, Volvo Cars, Telenor, etc. but also various hospitals, public organizations, management consulting firms, private equity firms, venture capital firms, etc.

Niklas has taken a leading position as inspirational lecturer within the field of lean and operational excellence. He is the author of the best-selling book,
“This Is Lean – Resolving the Efficiency Paradox”
, which has been translated into 14 languages, sold over 200,000 copies and it became the Nr.1 best-selling management book in Sweden 2012 and the most sold lean book of all time.