Lean Transformation
Academy

Building a Lean Business System

If you are familiar with high performance organizations that have strong cultures to achieve results, such as Toyota, Danaher, John Deere, and Ford, you might wonder, what is the secret behind their performance?
It’s no secret! Each of these companies has a common trait – they have each built a strong performance culture over time using a successful Operating or Business System rollout. These business systems are the collection of values, beliefs, and tools that drive the culture of performance, setting expectations, reducing waste, and ultimately, delivering results. So how do you know if a centralized Business System is right for you and your company?

Continuous Improvement Leader Boot Camp

Are you a leader within your organization with a mission to drive continuous improvement initiatives to drive performance results? Are you seeking new tools, need a refresher on lean tools, or looking for new best practice insights to help you drive action and manage change in a quickly changing environment?

Lean Focus will teach you the most critical tools and skills you will need in order to be the change agent within your organization, from the planning and preparation of strategic priorities, identifying the right tool applications to make improvements, driving action, practicing skills necessary to facilitate kaizen events, and ensuring sustainment of actions and accountability across your organization.

Complete Guide to VSM (Commercial, Ops, R&D, Mixed Model)

Value Stream Mapping is a widely recognized and highly effective lean management tool that can be applied across a multitude of applications. While the basic process of Value Stream Mapping can be used across any types of challenges, process flows, and industries, it is not always well understood how to adjust and cater the Value Stream Map towards the audience. A Value Stream Mapping approach that works well in operations may not be as applicable in Marketing.

How to Lead VSM/TPI Kaizen

Need to do a deep dive on a particular problematic non-manufacturing process (i.e. back office processes, digital transactions, etc.)? Want to create or redesign a process flow for a critical area of your business? Want to document and better understand an existing process for Standard Work development? Transactional Process Improvement (TPI) is a lean methodology that complements Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in helping you get to a more detailed view of processes. While Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a macro- view of the inputs, key processes, and output of delivery, Transactional Process Improvement (TPI) is a micro- deep dive into the specific elements of a process or processes that are targeted for improvement.

Leading the Lean Transformation

As a Leader in an organization, you are the most critical to drive the direction, culture, and performance by your team. Leading a full- or partial-scale Lean Transformation will take understanding, patience, and diligence. Through this 1-day course, you will be exposed to the most critical Leadership elements needed in order to adopt, implement, and sustain a thriving Lean culture.

Problem-Solving & Daily Management

Over these 3 days, Lean Focus will teach you HANDS-ON how to use two of the most critical business improvement processes of Problem-Solving (PS2) and Daily Management (DM).  Learn unique and proven methodologies from former Lean Leaders who have extensive experience applying these techniques across all functions and challenges faced within start-ups to Fortune 200 organizations. 

Quality System Fundamentals

Quality is one of the most important variables by which our customers measure our value in providing products or services, but it is often overlooked or taken for granted until a quality problem smacks us in the face. If your organization does not have a clear Quality System in place today or needs to improve your Quality System, whether it be the process design, communication, channels, or final quality checks, this course is for you.

Strategy Deployment

Over these 2 days, Lean Focus will teach you HANDS-ON about Strategy Deployment and ensuring that your strategic priorities are focused, aligned, actionable and with clear measurements to track progress and impact. Using the famous hoshin-kanri X-matrix format (aka Strategy Deployment or Policy Deployment), you will learn unique and proven methodologies from former Executive Leaders who have extensive experience applying these tools and driving performance improvements, from start-ups to Fortune 200 organizations.

VAVE Boot Camp

The front end design process is one of the most impactful on whether a product or service will succeed or fail, but is often times the most siloed process, despite the need for cross-functional execution for success. When designing a new product or planning to change an existing product, Value Analysis Value Engineering (VAVE) is an organized systematic methodology that allows you to make the functions of a product, system, building, or an organization crystal clear, forces you to assess cost-function relationships, and stimulates a desire to creatively achieve functions at the lowest possible cost without sacrificing performance or delivery.