About this Presentation
Learn how a rag-tag group of individual contributors are helping a large scale aerospace and defense contractor leave behind its addiction to productive capacity, re-think its thinking and learn to love flow again.
What Will You Learn
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The session challenges why baseline-driven management and takt-based thinking collapse in complex manufacturing, where dependency and variation amplify small disruptions into systemic failure.
It reveals how CCPM and precedence-based execution shift attention from utilization and dashboards to flow, sequence, and the next most important job.
The presentation hints at why “shadow work,” disruption recovery, and cost of delay matter far more than traditional efficiency metrics—but are rarely measured or managed.
It surfaces a deeper question about AI, human judgment, and pathwise dependency, inviting leaders to rethink how decisions should be supported—not automated—in complex systems.
Instructor(s)
Matt O'Brien
Matt O'Brien:
A senior process engineer + leadership development coach who partners with senior leaders across all of The Boeing Company to help them build new capabilities sufficient to overcome complex challenges spanning Boeing’s portfolio of products, functions and initiatives.
Matt is a “whitespace operator” whose key areas of expertise, beyond developing leaders, is in building domain specific solutions with teams employing methods from a broad array of fields including process development, design build integration, MBE/MBSE, Agile, Lean Product Development, Theory of Constraints, Decision Engineering, antifragile methods, Cynefin, network theory, etc in the pursuit of increasing throughput and dignity. matthew.j.o’[email protected] Institute of Business Science (MBA) graduate / Gordan Institute of Business Science (PGDip) graduate / University of Johannesburg (Mining Engineering Degree)