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What's Possible?
Perhaps lean thinking principles and the Toyota Production
System are new to your organization and you want more clarity about their
value to your business.
Or perhaps your company has already embarked on its lean journey,
has achieved some significant results, and you’re now asking: How lean
are we? How do we know how much progress we’ve made? Where should we
focus next?
Our Lean Enterprise Assessment and Diagnostic (LEAD) is a rapid, systematic approach to assessing your current state and discovering what’s possible during your lean journey.
LEAD is offered for a nominal fee with the intention of providing your business with an easily affordable offering while giving our teams the opportunity to meet each other.
Whether you’ve just started or are going to the next level with your lean initiative, LEAD is designed to help your team set a powerful course of direction and redefine what breakthrough results are possible. If your team is addressing these questions then LEAD can help you move forward quickly.
- What are your company’s value disciplines, and how do they affect
your lean initiative?
- How do you align your lean activities with
business objectives?
- What business results are possible?
- What’s your role and the role of your
senior leadership team?
- How do you organize your leadership team
and your project managers (lean champions)?
- What resources are needed?
- What is an aggressive yet reasonable timeline?
- What is the business case and financial justification?
- What is the best lean implementation strategy
for your organization?
- How can you start (or continue) for the greatest
impact?
- Should you begin across your entire enterprise,
or target specific value streams in phases?
LEAD
consists of the following activities:
- Web-based Diagnostic. Selected members of your management team and individual contributors are invited to complete and return a comprehensive web-based diagnostic developed and refined over the years to provide a reliable indicator of your organization’s current state. There are 31 lean enterprise practices in the diagnostic, divided amongst six major competencies:
- Leadership Commitment
- Management Systems
- Organizational Development
- Customer Focused Value Streams
- Employee Engagement
- Operational Excellence
Your organization is scored for each practice on a scale of 1 to 5.This information is compiled and analyzed to understand the best course of action for your lean transformation.
- Information
Session. This is an initial
conversation (usually a conference call) with key members of your team prior
to our on-site visit. Its purpose is to review your objectives, the results
of the current state diagnostic, and the logistics for the Qualification Interview.
- Qualification
Interview. This is a 1 to 3 day
on-site visit by our team. We'll meet with your site leadership and key members
of your team to explore your objectives, organizational structure, major value
streams, and challenges. At the end of this meeting, we’ll present a
joint vision of what’s possible during your Lean Enterprise Transformation.
- Value
Assessment. A few days after the
Qualification Interview, we’ll present a document outlining the joint
vision for your Lean Enterprise Transformation, tangible financial and operational
results that we commit to help your team achieve, a high-level timeline of
events, and project ROI analysis.
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