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Introduction to Lean | |
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Strategic Deployment | |
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Advanced Value Stream Mapping | |
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Lean Problem Solving | |
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Lean Administrative Process Transformation | |
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Lean Manufacturing | |
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Kaizen Fundamentals | |
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Lean Supply Chain | |
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Lean Six Sigma | |
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Lean Supervisor | |
| For pricing and terms, please contact info@leanhorizons.com or telephone +1.860.537.6786 to speak with one of our specialists. |
A value creation perspective means seeing the big picture and taking action end-to-end; improving the whole, not merely optimizing the parts.
In The Lean Strategies Benchmark Report, the Aberdeen Group reported that when businesses applied a Lean strategy across their organization, had top management actively engaged, and integrated the sell and supply sides of the value chain, they were as much as three times as likely to be an industry best-in-class performer. Value stream mapping is one of the primary tools for applying a cross-functional Lean strategy and for integrating the organization’s objectives with the customer experience. It is relevant in manufacturing or service-related industries; in logistics, supply chain and product development; on the shop floor and in administrative areas. Engaged enterprise-wide, value stream mapping identifies and eliminates wasteful activities, ultimately defining the optimum flow for creating the product or delivering the service. Through a comprehensive approach for mapping the process and information flows, value stream mapping aligns all levels of your organization with your customer.
The driving forceThe Lean Horizons Advanced Value Stream Mapping package is intended for the entire organization from the front line associates through senior management.
The benefitsLean value stream mapping is valuable on its own merits or can complement the process mapping of Six Sigma. By connecting the flow of information with the activities required to provide a product or service, an organization can see the closed loop of customer demand and the organization’s response. The organization gains a 360º view of value creation that incorporates the decision-making flow and the process flow. Beneficial on any scale, Lean Horizons’ Advance Value Stream Mapping provides the integrated tools to improve a simple process or the global product or information flow of an extended value stream.
Benefits include:
• A consistent understanding of the Lean principles across the organization
• The ability to identify the key value streams that are aligned with the overall organizational objectives
• Proven techniques for mapping and analyzing product, transactional, and information flows
• A common understanding of how current processes impact the customer experience
• A shared vision of where the organization is going and how it is going to achieve superior performance
Value stream mapping becomes integral to strategic planning and change management as it informs the basis of an implementation plan tied to business objectives. It focuses future improvement projects and kaizen events to allow the enterprise to perform "kaizen with a purpose" and gain the best competitive advantage as it
• prioritizes improvement efforts
• identifies waste and the source of the waste
• focuses on self-funding improvements
• engages common tools and establishes a common language through which to communicate
• bases decisions on objective, fact-based information
The Lean Horizons approachThe Lean Horizons Advanced Value Stream Mapping suite includes:
Introduction to Lean : Associates on kaizen teams who have not had a formal introduction to Lean benefit from this overview course of Lean concepts, tools and methods.
Management Introduction to Lean (1-day commitment): This module is often used as an initial introduction to a management team who may be expressing interest in engaging Lean as a methodology for improving a facility, operation or company. The information is presented with “site leadership” in mind, clearly defining business case, value stream focus, execution of Lean events, infrastructure and expectations for management or the executive team.
Value Stream Mapping: This workshop provides participants with the skills necessary to identify, map, and analyze the product and service value streams that are integral to the overall organizational objectives. These capabilities are applied in a “hands-on” manner and result in a clearly defined six-month future state along with an implementation road map tied to real business results.
Front Line Employees Introduction to Lean (2-hour commitment): This session covers the basic concepts of Lean and the value proposition, for the employee, when Lean is implemented and deployed with the proper structure in mind. This session introduces the fundamentals with many ‘real’ examples used to illustrate approach as well as impact on the work area.
Value Stream Mapping Information Flow (VSMi): A Lean Horizons original methodology for applying the principles of value stream mapping to administrative information flows. The workshop covers the techniques for mapping information flows and assessing their impact on the decision-making process. Participants are guided in identifying ways to increase the value of information as it moves through the organization and to create a definitive plan to make it happen. Lean Horizons provides a VSMi solution for both transactional information flows and non-transactional information flows.
For pricing and terms, please contact info@leanhorizons.com or telephone +1.860.537.6786 to speak with one of our specialists.
