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Hal Macomber is a partner with Gregory Howell in the consulting company Lean Project Consulting, Inc. He is currently placing his attention on project leadership and organization transformation in a lean environment. By bringing together the work of
Flores, Goldratt, and Ohno/Shingo with an emphasis on leadership he is intent to bring about a transformation in how projects are delivered. Project management, one of the most-cited career positions, is failing to produce the desired business results. Projects are routinely over budget, late, and fail in often significant ways to satisfy the customer and the project participants. The bulk of today’s efforts at improving projects are spent on doing a better job applying the same old techniques. In conjunction with the Lean Construction Institute, Hal has set out to change that.
Hal studied economics and operations research and then went on to get an MBA from Boston University in operations management. His preoccupation with operations effectiveness paid off when he learned about workflow, Fernando Flores’ language-action perspective reinterpretation of work.
Hal’s career spans numerous industries and roles:
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Production control management of computer manufacturing
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Materials management of software distribution
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Division management of boiler manufacturing
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Worldwide quality management of steam and gas turbine equipment design and manufacturing
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Consulting for operating and maintaining power stations and copper smelting
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Software design for project management and consulting
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Operations and consulting management of software development
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Chief Operating Officer of integrated design-build construction operations
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Consultant on lean project delivery, general business management, and leadership
Hal can be reached at hmacomber@leanproject.com. You can read his weblogs Reforming Project Management at www.reformingprojectmanagement.com and Project Kaizen at www.projectkaizen.com. Get free project help improving coordinating action by visiting www.letsplaycatch.com. Check out the new Quick ‘n Easy Kaizen Community at www.quick-n-easy-kaizen.com.
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