{"id":3634,"date":"2025-11-24T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gembadocs.com\/learn\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:49:12","slug":"transforming-sperrin-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gembadocs.com\/learn\/transforming-sperrin-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Sperrin Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3634\" class=\"elementor elementor-3634\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2859f6d4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2859f6d4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aadd3a1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aadd3a1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Keynote Podcast from Ryan Tierney from Lean Made Simple at Gemba Summit 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49c5403e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49c5403e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ryan Tierney, founder of Lean Made Simple and CEO of Seating Matters, delivered an inspiring keynote at Gemba Summit 2025 about his bold decision to start over and transform Sperrin Metal &#8211; a 63-year-old Northern Ireland company that had lost its way.<\/p><p>Just 11 years ago, Ryan was stressed and overworked, watching a YouTube video at 3:30 in the morning when something clicked and lit a fire that has never gone out. After building Seating Matters into a world-class lean organization with people flying in from around the globe for tours, Ryan found himself &#8220;polishing a shiny thing&#8221; and yearning for massive impact. His vision of &#8220;<strong>making Ireland the next Japan<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; conceived on a flight back from Japan with his son James &#8211; created such energy that people started reaching out asking how they could be part of it. One month later, Sperrin Metal came up for sale.<\/p><p>When Ryan, his brothers Jonathan and Martin, and board chairman Rob walked through the factory and sat down for tea afterward, they all looked at each other and said &#8220;we need to buy that place&#8221; because it was so chaotic.<\/p><p>Ryan&#8217;s mantra is simple: a chaotic Gemba equals a chaotic company, and there&#8217;s no such thing as a chaotic shop floor with a perfectly run business. The waste they saw made their eyes light up with opportunity. 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