CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
twelfth cohort of the Depot and Arsenal Executive Leadership
Program (DAELP) completed its annual immersion residency the week
of December 8-12, 2014. The
four-and-a-half day trip allowed participants to benchmark
commercial and organic industrial base operations on site and
conduct a two day value stream mapping exercise which concluded
with delivering their findings and recommendations to COL
David Luders, Commander, Rock Island
Arsenal-Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) and
his leadership team.
DAELP is an executive development program for commanders and
senior civilian leaders serving within the United States Military's
Industrial Base. Established in 2003 by the U.S. Army Materiel
Command (AMC), DAELP is organized and administered by the Institute
for Defense and Business (IDB) and delivered in conjunction with
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel
Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School (UNC).
In addition to RIA-JMTC, this residency took the DAELP cohort to
John Deere Harvester Works in Illinois; Alcoa Davenport Works in
Iowa; Caterpillar's Morton
Logistics Center and Caterpillar's Tech Center, both in
Illinois; and the Quad Cities
Manufacturing Laboratory, located on Rock
Island in Illinois.
Throughout the week the DAELP cohort enjoyed engagements with both
private and public sector leaders on a broad array of issues the
cohort members encounter on a regular basis, including:
- the economic challenges facing the commercial and organic
industrial base,
- talent management and development,
- improving and managing internal processes and
communications,
- and creating a culture dedicated to continuous process
improvement.
The two day hands-on exercise took place at RIA-JMTC and focused
on continuous process improvement (CPI). The exercise allowed the
participants, some of whom have no CPI or Lean Six Sigma
background, to understand both the tangible and intangible benefits
stemming from Rapid Process Improvement events. Teams worked to
develop short-term and long-term action items to improve four
Rock Island process challenges:
reducing cost, increasing efficiency, saving tax dollars, and
enhanced internal communication.
This residency, one of five residencies in the program, is
designed to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the
commercial and organic industrial base, an understanding that can
only come from hands-on experience. This could not be achieved
without the support of the public and private organizations that
open their doors and share their perspectives. The knowledge gained
from this experience will aid participants in their remaining
residencies and beyond.
About the IDB
The IDB is a non-profit research and education institute formed
in 1997 by the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and the state of North
Carolina. The institute provides custom executive education
programs in the areas of logistics and technology, life cycle
systems, leadership and organizational transformation, strategic
studies, and stabilization and economic reconstruction and the
IU-UNC LogMBA program. The Institute for Defense and Business and
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School partner on development
and delivery of a suite of LOGTECH, The Center of Excellence in
Logistics and Technology, programs which include DAELP. The U.S.
Army Materiel Command is the DoD Executive Sponsor for LOGTECH.
More information is available at www.IDB.org or contact DAELP
Program Director, LtCol. Ted
Sturgeon, USMC (Ret.) at 919-969-8008 or
sturgeon@idb.org.
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