Events

Learning Days

A Learning Day is a gemba visit at a member’s site: the plant tour, the daily management board, the problem-solving cases, and an honest conversation about what did not work. Not yet running: we are designing the format with members and will build the first one with the first host.

Host or attend a Learning Day

Offer your site, or ask to be told when one is scheduled near you.

Consent
What a Learning Day is

A gemba visit: half a day at a site that runs an improvement system

Gemba is the Japanese word for the real place where work happens; the Lean Enterprise Institute’s lexicon explains the idea well. A gemba visit with peers shows you a working improvement system rather than slides about one.

On the floor, not in a hall

Twenty-five to forty practitioners at one site for half a day. The visit is the content: the line, the boards, the people who run them.

Two or three cases with numbers

The host presents work it has done, with the baseline and the change, at the place where it happened.

The honest hour

A closed-door conversation about what did not work, under the rule that nothing leaves the room without the host’s consent.

Participation fee

From INR 8,000 in India, and from USD 320 to USD 480 elsewhere depending on the region, per visitor, for the plant visit only. The host provides the venue and pays no fee. Nothing is sold on the floor. Fees by region

Fees

Fees by region

Per visitor, for one Learning Day. The fee covers the plant visit only. Participants make their own arrangements for travel, stay and anything else they need. In India, 18% GST is added. Outside India, local taxes are added where they apply.

Region Members Non-members
India INR 8,000 INR 10,000
Gulf USD 400 USD 500
Southeast Asia USD 320 USD 400
Europe and elsewhere USD 480 USD 600
How it will work

Three steps for a host

This is the intended format. The first Learning Day will be built with the first host, and the format adjusted from what we learn.

1

Offer your site

Any member organization with a running improvement system can host: a plant, a warehouse, a hospital wing, a shared-services floor.

2

We design it with you

World Opex visits the site, agrees the tour route, two or three cases with their numbers, the questions you want challenged, and the confidentiality rules.

3

Host, then share

Hosts receive a written summary of the visit and the questions raised, and the visit counts as evidence of an open improvement culture in an awards entry.

Who takes part

Members hosting members

Hosts

Members whose site runs daily management and problem solving and who are willing to show the boards, the gaps and the people.

Visitors

Plant heads, CI leaders and SME owners who come to look, ask and take one idea back. Members pay the lower fee, and membership is free. Consultants and providers may attend only as a host’s guest.

Where

Wherever a host is. The first Learning Days will follow the members: India and the Gulf first, then wherever the community reaches critical mass.
FAQ

Common questions

When the first host is confirmed. Hosts hear from us first; visitors are told as soon as a Learning Day is scheduled near them.

Yes, for visitors. In India it is INR 8,000 for members and INR 10,000 for non-members, plus 18% GST. Outside India it is USD 400 or 500 in the Gulf, USD 320 or 400 in Southeast Asia, and USD 480 or 600 in Europe and elsewhere, for members and non-members, plus local taxes where they apply. It covers the plant visit only. Participants make their own arrangements for travel, stay and anything else they need. The host provides the venue and pays no fee.

To host, yes. To visit, no, but members pay the lower fee. Membership is free.

Would you host the first one?

Tell us about your site and what you would show. We will design the first Learning Day with you.