Operational Excellence

This Operational Excellence online training course will equip the participants with the knowledge, skills, and behavioural competencies required to support an Operational Excellence programme and contribute significantly to the bottom line of your organisation, reducing variation, defects, cycle times, lead times, waste, and costs within your operations.

Operational Excellence (OPEX) goes beyond continuous improvement, cost minimisation and productivity maximisation. OPEX supports the drive for sustainable profitability and growth within your organisation by adopting a holistic approach to improvement. The essence of Operational Excellence is an organisational culture that achieves long-term sustainable growth and performance development by enhancing employee empowerment and motivation. The core of OPEX is applying the right tools to the right processes in the right culture. It is a crucial element of organisational leadership focusing on the continual development of organisational culture and operational processes.

This Operational Excellence online training course is designed for leaders and practitioners wishing to transform their organisations through strategy and culture, and through the application of operational excellence approaches, methodologies, processes, and tools.

This GLOMACS online training course will highlight:

• The framework, principles, and benefits of Operational Excellence
• Lean organization principles and practices
• Effective project and process management practices
• A variety of practices and methodologies for Operational Excellence
• Manage change and influence cultural transformation

By the end of this online training course, participants will be able to:

• Prioritise and link improvement activities to achieve the organisation’s strategic objectives
• Review processes, suggest improvements and monitor the progress of the changes
• Manage projects and work processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency of business operations
• Select and use relevant tools and methodologies in the contexts of operational improvement initiatives
• Implement lean organization principles, methodologies to achieve key operational excellence goals – easier, better, faster, and cheaper.
• Influence organisational culture and employee behaviour to support operational excellence

This online training course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training course is conducted Online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of any location of your choice.

Organisations will benefit from participants adopting holistic thinking, avoiding the sub-optimisation that can result from fragmented improvement activity. The benefits are as follows:

• An organisational culture of striving for operational excellence to create value and to sustain business growth
• Aligning improvements to strategic imperatives
• Engaging all stakeholders in the improvement efforts
• Reducing defects and waste across the whole value stream
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of resources
• Increasing customer satisfaction capturing the ‘voice of the customer’
• Promoting organisational learning and engagement

This online training course will personally benefit the participants by being able to apply the thinking and techniques to identify, evaluate, and improve issues affecting them in the workplace.

• Developing their professional skills and critical thinking
• Solving problems using structured, analytical methods
• Making data-driven business decisions
• Engaging more effectively with colleagues during team-based problem solving
• Employing tools and techniques to reduce costs and drive customer satisfaction and profitability

This online training course is appropriate for everyone in the organisation but may be of special interest to anyone charged with driving the improvement of operating performance.

This online training course will benefit all levels of personnel in private as well as public sector organisations:

• Managers
• Team Leaders
• Supervisors
• Technical Staff
• Healthcare Personnel
• Operations Personnel

DAY 1

Operational Excellence Perspectives & Strategic Approach

• The OPEX Framework, Principles, Benefits
• Elements of Strategic Approach – McKinsey’s 7S, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Map
• McKinsey’s 7S Model
• Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
• Strategy Map
• Integrated Management Systems – Quality, Environmental, Safety & Health (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001)

DAY 2

Managing Projects   

• Project Pipeline Development and Prioritisation
• Overview of PM Lifecycle
• Business Case Proposal
• Project Planning Toolbox – WBS, Gantt Chart, Risk Management etc.
• Project Execution & Monitoring
• Project Closure

DAY 3

Practices & Methodologies for Operational Excellence

• Continuous Improvement
• Improving Cross-functional Processes – SIPOC, Swimlane
• Finding & Eliminating Wastes
• Reducing Costs of Quality (COQ)
• A3 Problem Solving, DMAIC & PDCA Cycle
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)

DAY 4

Lean Organization Practices

• Lean Management 4P Framework
• The 14 Principles of Lean Organization
• Tools Selection and Use – Idea Generation, Data Analysis, Decision Making
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Visual Management – 5S, Kanban

DAY 5

Cultural Leadership

• Change Leadership
• Conflict Resolution
• Consensus Building
• Motivating Individuals
• Team Building

In Association With

Oxford Management Centre

A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients.

PetroKnowledge

Our collaboration with Petroknowledge aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

The Energy Training Centre

Our collaboration with Energy Training Centre aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

KC Academy

Our collaboration with KC Academy aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

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