Biography

Antonio Stagno is founder of the XTENSO consulting firm, which he has headed since November 1999. He specializes in operational performance optimization and operational excellence. He offers coaching, training and transition management services to local SMEs and international groups. His areas of expertise include Change Management, Lean Management, Supply Chain Management, ERP and the development of mathematical optimization and decision support tools. His personal credo is to develop the company by valorizing employee skills and encouraging collective intelligence, a path he considers to be the only winning, ethical and sustainable one. At the same time, Antonio Stagno holds a number of teaching posts, as Professor of Supply Chain at the EMBA at the University of Geneva, and as a lecturer at various Swiss universities of applied sciences. His academic career began at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he obtained a PhD in Mathematical Optimization & Logistics, following a degree in Computer Science.

Presentation

Title

A holistic vision of industrial performance optimization

Abstract

Using an industrial case study, we’ll show how Lean Management, Supply Chain Management and Change Management were jointly deployed to enable a company to change its culture and dramatically increase its internal and customer efficiency. We will also show at what point in the transformation process mathematical optimization models came into play, and what preliminary actions had to be taken.