Javier H4 Villalba Diez (PhD)
Javier (H4) Villalba-Diez (PhD) is currently director and founder of an international consulting company that has the mission of empowering organizations achieve their strategic goals while increasing trust. He has a background of more than 15 years as lean consultant and as production manager in a number of positions related to manufacturing operations. He also teaches in several graduate programs in Germany, US and Japan. His nickname (H4) comes from reading his name "Ja-Vier" in German.
Biography
This is Dr. H4.***
Dr. Javier Villalba Diez is the founder and director of an international consulting business.
As a researcher, lecturer, author, artist and engineer he has an illustrated approach to life.
His favorite activity is continuous learning and constant teaching: teach to as many people as possible all the things he learns.
He is not the best at doing everything, but is the best at empowering others to become their best.
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H4 is an iconoclast.
H4 is the leader of a group of HK experts that will do anything it takes to help you achieve your organizational goals while increasing trust.
This is done by implementing the interpretation of HOSHIN KANRI described in this book: THE HOSHIN KANRI FOREST.
Education
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Dr. Ing. (PhD), Univ. Politécnica, Madrid, Spain, 2016
Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.), Tech. Univ. München, Germany, 2003
Industrial Engineer (M.Sc.), Univ. Politécnica, Madrid, 2003
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Currently the areas of Reserach in H4´s interest are HOSHIN KANRI and Business Intelligence.
His professional expertise are HOSHIN KANRI, Leadership, Lean Managament and everytihng related to the KAIZEN process.
Personal Interests
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H4 has ELO of 2057 in standard chess, a masters degree in piano and plays tenor saxophone as amateur.
Websites
Books
Articles
Strategic Lean Organizational Design: Towards Lean World-Small World Configurati
Published: Jan 01, 2016 by Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Authors: Villalba-Diez, Javier Ordieres-Mere, Joaquin
After introducing the concept of organizational functional and structural motifs as small organizational building block, our findings suggest the hypothesis that a strategic organizational design (SOD) approach to meet these challenges involves maximizing the number and diversity of functional motifs, while minimizing the repertoire of structural motifs.
NEMAWASHI: Attaining Value Stream Alignment within Complex Organizational Netwo
Published: Sep 30, 2015 by Conference: CIRPe 2015 - Understanding the life cycle implications of manufacturing, At Cranfield, United Kingdom
Authors: Javier Villalba-Diez, Joaquin Ordieres-Meré, Heiko Chudzick, Paloma López-Rojo
Subjects:
Engineering - Industrial & Manufacturing
This paper provides a winnerless process (WLP) differential equations model for quantifying intra-organizational value stream (VS) alignment dynamics that can help design sustainable lean management solutions. This paper presents ongoing research results that show how the model was implemented in one industrial facility.
The HOSHIN KANRI TREE. Cross-plant lean shopfloor management
Published: Jul 31, 2015 by Conference: Procedia CIRP, At Bochum, Germany, Volume: 32
Authors: Javier Villalba-Diez, Joaquin Ordieres-Meré, Gottfried Nuber
Subjects:
Business & Management
This paper presents a novel Lean SM Method (LSM) called “HOSHIN KANRI Tree” (HKT), which is based on standardization of the communication patterns among process owners (POs) by PDCA. The standardization of communication patterns by HKT technology should bring enormous benefits in value stream (VS) performance, speed of standardization and learning rates to the Industry 4.0 generation of organizations. These potential advantages of HKT are being tested at present in worldwide research.
Improving Manufacturing Performance by Standardization of Interprocess Communica
Published: Jun 07, 2015 by IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 62(3)
Authors: Javier Villalba-Diez, Joaquin Ordieres-Meré
Subjects:
Business & Management
The purpose of this paper is to offer a standardization model of interprocess communication that increases manufacturing operational performance (MOP). First, we propose a novel holistic model that makes standardized interprocess communication possible in manufacturing organizations. Second, we propose a model for quantifying the implications of standardizing interprocess communication upon MOP.
Videos
Published: Sep 12, 2016
Chapter's Preview of the book "The Hoshin Kanri Forest: Lean Strategic Organizational Design."