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Why Improve?

Why do people want to learn about Lean?

  • They want to:

    • double their business using their current facilities

    • reduce costs

    • get rid of the waste they see

    • improve product and service quality

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  • They've seen Lean in other companies

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  • They believe there are better ways to work

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  • They've had a Significant Emotional Event

    • financial losses 
    • market share drop

    • layoffs

    • company merger / purchase 

Why Lean?

Why Do People Choose to Get Help?

  • Do you have enough people?  Is your retention rate low?

  • Are your employees happy and your customers delighted?  Are you sure?

  • Are you getting 10% - 50% higher productivity every year?

  • Do you have enough warehouse space? Enough for a 25% increase in business?

  • Do you average three or more improvement ideas from each employee every year?  Are you getting more ideas this year?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, then getting help can make a difference for your business.  

Pitfalls

Fake Lean
 

  • Has your company been taught fake Lean?  

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  • Has your improvement process been corrupted by Lean Six Sigma?

 

  • Different Improvement Technologies need to be applied differently

    • Lean is a business system

    • Six Sigma is a quality problem solving process

Typical Mistakes about Becoming a Lean company

  • It’s free

  • Improvements are someone else's responsibility

  • The managers will make us Lean

  • There is no time investment 

  • No training is needed

  • A one-time training is enough

  • We'll hire someone to make the business Lean

  • I don’t need to learn better ways of doing business 

  • Others need to change, not me

Continuous Improvement Technologies

Lean Enterprise System

The world's best business system.  It can be applied to every business, in every area of the business. First evidenced in a ship-building yard called the Arsenale in Venice constructed in 1104 AD and demonstrated to Henry III of France in 1574. Henry Ford's Highland Park, Michigan plant in 1913 and River Rouge complex were big steps in the development of the Lean system. Toyota further developed the system through the fires of necessity in the 1950s and 1960s and continuously improved it since that time as the Toyota Production System.  It has been explained and brought to the world by the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute; the leading teaching organization of all things Lean.   

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