2023 LCI Congress Call for Abstracts

25^th Annual LCI Congress • Detroit, MI • October 24-27, 2023

25 Years of Learning: Supercharge Your Lean Journey in the Motor City

We encourage Lean professionals, including owners, designers (architects and engineers), trade partners, and general contractors to submit abstracts related to the 2023 LCI Congress theme, 25 Years of Learning: Supercharge Your Lean Journey in the Motor City.

Explore the six tracks below and decide where your story and lessons learned fit into the LCI Congress. These are guidelines for your submission but feel free to cover other aspects of your Lean journey.

Design Your Vehicle to Improve the Journey: Modifying Culture and Behavior for Success
This track is intended for stories of best practices for developing Lean skills and a Lean mindset. These stories should elevate Lean principles and collaborative communication and might cover ways to gain buy-in to support Lean initiatives. Your stories should demonstrate how Lean tactics add value to individuals, teams, and projects. We hope you will share best practices for scaling Lean within your team or a broader organization.
- How to create high performing teams and support your people for project success.
- How different project partners, including owners, designers, general contractors, and trade partners come together at project onset.
- Experiences and metrics that detail improvements derived from Lean practices such as collaborative communication, problem solving, reliable commitments, etc.
- Best practices for developing the Lean mindset within your team or organization.
- Strategies and approaches for developing Lean leaders and inspiring others to start their journey.
- Tools and processes that your team is implementing (Onboarding, Team Health Assessments, Conditions of Satisfaction, Retrospectives, Scrum, etc.) How have they added value? What improvements have you realized and where can you go from here?
Engineer Your Vehicle with the End in Mind: Optimizing Design and Preconstruction to Deliver Customer Value
This track is intended for sharing lessons and best practices for collaborative design and preconstruction efforts that deliver value to all project stakeholders.
- Stories of implementing and measuring Lean innovation in the design space.
- How Lean tactics such as Target Value Delivery and Conditions of Satisfaction influence the overall design process.
- How design can drive Lean delivery during the preconstruction process and bring in relevant parties from conception to closeout.
- How you were able to ground the team in the fundamentals of Lean delivery.
- How the design community can support better flow in the field.
- How design and preconstruction leaders can support a learning culture on projects and in the office.
- Tools and processes that your team is implementing (Big Room, Target Value Design, CBA, Concurrent Engineering, P3, etc.) How have they added value? What improvements have you realized and where can you go from here?
Refine Your Production Systems to Drive Assembly: Aligning Pre-Fabrication and Procurement to Enhance Productivity
This track is intended for sharing processes and tools that drive continuous improvement and better outcomes on projects.
- Insights on leveraging prefabrication and industrialized construction to deliver more value to clients and project teams.
- How to implement BIM Modeling and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) with a Lean mindset.
- How to leverage technology to improve planning and collaboration.
- Tools and processes that your team is implementing (Big Room, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), etc.) How have they added value? What improvements have you realized and where can you go from here?
Gear Up Your Field Execution to Maximize Efficiency: Utilizing Lean Thinking and Practices to Achieve Desired Outcomes
Share your story that emphasizes how Lean practices are improving efficiency, productivity, and safety on the jobsite.
- How a Lean program can develop the next generation of field leaders.
- Innovative practices that can optimize production, decrease waste, and promote safe practices.
- How all stakeholders (the design community, general contractors, owners, trade partners, and consultants) can influence Lean practices in the field to deliver better results.
- How to get multiple trade partners to row in the same direction and at the same pace.
- How to support a learning mindset in the field.
- How to leverage some or all aspects of the Last Planner System®: Milestones, Constraints, PPC, Variance, Making Work Ready, etc.
- How a Lean mindset and creating a culture of respect for people are increasing team morale and improving workflow
- Tools and processes that your team is implementing (Last Planner System®, Takt Time, 5S, Daily Huddles, Gemba Walks, A3 Thinking, Just in Time Delivery, Problem Solving, Visual Controls, etc.) How have they added value? What improvements have you realized and where can you go from here?

NEW Journey to Mastery Tracks. These immersion tracks are intended to provide a deep dive into two Lean topics to assist with your continuous journey to Mastery: Lean Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation.

Lean Integrated Project Delivery Immersion Track
- Overview/Contract
- Partner Selection & Onboarding
- Co-location/Big Room Concept & Visual Management
- Last Planner System ® (including daily huddles)
- Target Value Delivery
- Building a Cost Model, Set based design, How did you settle on a Target Value?
Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation Immersion Track
- Aligning Leadership
- Are We There Yet?
- Measuring the Data and Using It
- Lessons Learned, Celebrate the Wins (Milestones) and the Losses (Roadblocks), Continuous Improvement

Choose from two options to tell your story—you will be able to designate your choice in the form below:

Presentation:
(Approximately 45-minute time slot to present a Lean story, which includes 10 minutes for Q&A). Note that some individual presentation teams may be asked to present on a two-presentation panel.
Live Lab—Short inspiring demonstrations from the trenches:
(20 minute time slot to demonstrate a Lean tool or process, which includes 5 minutes for Q&A.)
- We all eventually see little wins when we commit to continuous improvement. Live Labs are little or big wins that can be demonstrated with visual clarity in about 15 minutes or less, helping other design and construction professionals visualize what a win can look like and how they might apply the tool or process to improve their own work.
- You might share:
  - your "win" involving your well-organized gang box that helps your crews be more productive and waste less time hunting for tools and supplies
  - your rules or tactics for running productive and collaborative meetings
  - a tracking tool (manpower or material orders and deliveries)
- Please share ideas like these or others that can be implemented right away on another job site at our Live Labs. If it is possible to bring the tool physically, that would be ideal.

If you have a compelling Lean story to tell that does not fit into any of the above presentation tracks, the 2023 LCI Congress planning team still encourages you to submit.

Abstract Submission Deadline:

March 2, 2023

Speakers will be notified by:

May 5, 2023

Presentation outlines and registration deadline:

July 14, 2023

Final presentation submission deadline (with 2 drafts submitted prior):

October 4, 2023

Once your abstract is submitted, it will go through a detailed selection process by the 2023 LCI Congress abstract review team. If selected, you will be notified if your abstract was accepted as a Presentation, Live Lab, or both.

Congress Tips for Abstract Success:

Content:

Align with the 2023 Congress theme.
Clearly identify a challenge(s) and provide a solution(s) for attendees.
Provide robust learning examples and takeaways for attendees.
Discuss challenges and failures that were overcome by using Lean thinking and tools; leverage lessons learned.
Identify waste reduction or elimination.
Emphasize specific Lean tools for success that can be applied right away.
Congress presentations are not intended to be commercials or advertisements for specific products/services. For example, a sales pitch for a software product your team may have utilized should not be the sole focus of your presentation.
Simplify your message: Provide in-depth focus the core elements, concepts or practices implemented versus covering many topics.
Include clear visual(s) and video(s).

Presentation team:

Feature speakers from cross-functional roles, i.e. owners, designers and trade partners.
Have at least one LCI corporate member speaking.

Are you submitting for Presentation, Live Lab or Both (Presentation and Live Lab)?
Once you make your selection, additional fields will appear.*

Presentation Only Live Lab Only Both

Note: Please ensure all submitted speakers are able to attend and present at Congress in Detroit prior to submitting this form.

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Presentation: Executive Summary/Presentation Description:
The description will be used on the Congress agenda and for marketing purposes. Equipping attendees to lead change: Include the specific takeaways that attendees will be able to implement after hearing your presentation. Feedback from previous attendees points to a need for presentations with a “how to” and transparent lessons learned.
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Presentation: Explain the background and motivation behind the big idea you want to present.
Include your problem statement: A problem statement is a concise description of the problem, issues, or condition the presentation team seeks to address. The problem statement identifies the current state, the desired future state and any gaps between the two. This should clearly convey the purpose of the presentation and will allow the audience members to better choose attending a presentation if they share similar problems.
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Presentation: What are the key takeaways attendees will learn from your presentation?
Please note the 2023 LCI Congress Planning team is looking for presentations with tangible takeaways, lessons learned through failure and growth, and sustained examples for attendees.
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Live Lab: Please provide a succinct title for your Live Lab. (This will be used in the Congress program).
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Live Lab: What tool or process have you implemented onsite or in the office to effectively improve work?
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Live Lab: How might you show the audience that the tool/practice has a measurable impact on the work being put in place?
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Live Lab: How best can the tool and/or process be demonstrated in a 15-20 minute segment?
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Live Lab: Can a physical representation of your tool or process be brought to Congress?
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Live Lab: Please submit a Photo of your tool or process in action.
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Which, if any, of the presentation tracks does your subject matter most align with?
(You can select one track)*

Design Your Vehicle to Improve the Journey: Modifying Culture and Behavior for Success Engineer Your Vehicle with the End in Mind: Optimizing Design and Preconstruction to Deliver Customer Value Refine Your Production Systems to Drive Assembly: Aligning Pre-Fabrication and Procurement to Enhance Productivity Gear Up Your Field Execution to Maximize Efficiency: Utilizing Lean Thinking and Practices to Achieve Desired Outcomes Lean Integrated Project Delivery Immersion Track Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation Immersion Track

The 2023 LCI Congress planning team is looking for speakers with all levels of experience.
Please list relevant speaker experience and Lean expertise, if any.
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Have any of the speakers previously presented at LCI Congress?*

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Terms and Conditions:

The 2023 LCI Congress planning team is committed to bringing thoughtful, innovative material to the greater LCI community. We
appreciate your interest in speaking at LCI Congress! We regret that we will not be able to accommodate every abstract
submitted and we may ask you to modify your presentation format.

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2023 LCI Congress Call for Abstracts

25th Annual LCI Congress • Detroit, MI • October 24-27, 2023

25 Years of Learning: Supercharge Your Lean Journey in the Motor City

Terms and Conditions:

25^th Annual LCI Congress • Detroit, MI • October 24-27, 2023