Lean Thinking

Introduction

Lean thinking is the cornerstone of an efficient and lean enterprise. This Lean Thinking training course provides a comprehensive coverage of lean techniques that enable organisations to create more customer value with less resources. Lean Thinking has successfully challenged traditional mass production practices, by providing ‘leaner’ processes and supply chains with less waste. Lean Thinking promotes a positive mindset where employees are encouraged and motivated to search for problems, to think and solve them proactively.

This training course covers the essence of Lean Thinking that Lean is all about maximising customer value while eliminating waste, saving money and building continuous improvement. This requires not just the creation of a lean enterprise for each product but also the rethinking of conventional firms, functions, and careers, and the development of a lean strategy. This training course introduces participants the philosophy of doing more with less with a focus on production and output quality.

This GLOMACS Lean thinking training course will highlight:

• The fundamental principles of Lean Thinking
• Development stages and successful implementation of lean
• Optimising operations
• Lean communication
• Value maximization

Objectives

At the end of this Lean Thinking training course, you will learn:

• To understand lean processes and techniques in order to achieve corporate success
• Critically analyse and evaluate a range of theoretical perspectives of lean thinking
• Apply appropriate lean methodologies
• To successfully deploy lean methods to drive business performance.
• How lean techniques help to achieve greater efficiency

Methodology

This Lean thinking training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course provides an interactive and participative workshop style that will challenge individuals and encourage lean thinking. This training course will also guide and facilitate learning and individual reflection, as well as using direct input, discussions, case studies, exercises and video. The lessons will seek to integrate theory with practice and will draw upon participants’ own backgrounds, experiences and views and encourage them to relate them to theory.

Organisational Impact

Organisations will benefit from the participants adopting holistic lean thinking methods.

• An organisational culture of lean thinking to create value and to sustain business growth
• Increasing customer satisfaction
• Reducing defects and waste across the whole value stream
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of resources
• Engaging all stakeholders in the improvement efforts
• Promoting organisational learning and engagement

Personal Impact

This training course on Lean Thinking will personally benefit the participants by being able to apply the thinking and techniques to identify, evaluate, and improve issues affecting organisational performance.

• Solving problems using Lean Thinking methods
• Applying the Lean Philosophy to work practices
• Enhanced efficiency and consistency in performance
• Improved career flexibility and prospects
• Employing tools and techniques to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction, profitability, and growth