Managing a Lean Transformation

Objectives

• To give senior managers a one-day overview of what is involved in leading a (top down) lean transformation.
• The aim is to show managers how to ask the right questions – not to provide them with all the answers.
• To give them a taste of how key concepts in lean can help them and how they fit together.

Curriculum

• Learning to see your business from a process perspective.
• What is different about a lean approach?
• Customer, business and employee benefits and developing a compelling case for change.
• Alternative approaches used to design a first lean project.
• Lean project planning to manage the first project.
• Management tasks in leading the transformation – direction, prioritization and leadership.
• Pulling knowledge from outside the organization.
• Creating a learning environment and spreading out the lessons.
• Action planning your next steps.

Workshop benefits

Through instruction, small group discussions and exercises, the workshop participants will:

• Learn about the alternative approaches organisations have used to implement lean and discuss the benefits and potential problems with each of the approaches.
• Start to formulate their own agenda for lean implementation.