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Tactics of Lean Innovation

Learn critical success factors to leverage—and sustain—your lean activities and assure the adoption of your lean initiative throughout your organization.

Why Tactics of Lean Innovation?

• Most companies on the lean journey are not sustaining their gains or reaching their potential. Is yours one of them? Discover how to kickstart your program and maximize your results.
• Less than 37% of lean improvements and training produces meaningful and measurable results. Learn how to beat the odds and get your organization on track for success.
• Learn how to think lean and how to efficiently and effectively transform your company.
• Applying the tactics you'll learn at this seminar will accelerate your implementation and generate the most return on your lean journey investments.
• We'll explore the ways marketing executives put together successful campaigns, and you'll discover how to use the same tactics to market your lean initiative throughout your organization.
• Acquire practical strategies for obtaining extraordinary gains in productivity.

Educating your Lean Team

This seminar is designed for the people who will make your lean initiative a success: executives, managers, change agents, and team and front-line leaders.

The Lean Learning Center and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers help companies like yours make the successful transformation to lean. Many organizations desire to go lean, but are held back because they do not fully understand lean principles and practices. Or, they may be wary because they fear their efforts will diminish after a false start. Their caution is justified. Transforming to lean means new processes, new ways of thinking, and new roles for employees, management, and leadership alike.

Few companies today escape the challenge of delivering value to their customers. With consolidations bringing confusion, margins getting razor-thin, customers demanding more, and suppliers squeezing profits, lean transformation provides the solution. By incorporating the wastereducing, streamlined, enterprise-wide system that enabled Toyota to revolutionize the auto industry, your company can slash costs, become more flexible, and compete in any environment—profitably.

A Dozen Reasons Why You Should Attend

1. You will learn how to apply six specific techniques to help assure the commitment to and success of lean in your organization.



2. When you apply the six lean techniques you will bring back to your company, you will consistently and rapidly improve your business results.



3. Get many of your lean transformation questions answered, and address many of the concerns you have so that you can effectively apply lean at your organization.



4. Return to your company with a variety of coordinated lean techniques so that you'll be able to reach all levels of the organization in an effective and efficient manner.



5. A lean roadmap doesn't prescribe a route, it provides options. Learn how to develop a lean roadmap based on your specific objectives and business conditions.



6. Lean experts agree that the use of Lean Learning Laboratories is the single most effective technique available to change an organization's culture and institutionalize continuous lean improvement. At the seminar, we will demystify the content, structure, and applications of Lean Learning Laboratories.



7. Learn why "push" always costs more than "pull." Then develop or reinforce the pull for lean in your company, plant, or department.



8. Take away the skills to drive out considerable waste by connecting and aligning all of your improvement activities with your company's measurable goals and objectives.



9. Learn many of the tactics employed by world-class companies from a variety of industries, including Land O'Lakes, DTE Energy, Dana, and Northeast Health, so that you can learn from their success.



10. Innovation is about gaining acceptance for an idea and applying it. Discover the ten tactics marketing strategists use for successful product introductions—and see how you can adopt them for your successful lean implementation.



11. Successful lean implementation is about changing behaviors to improve performance. By combining traditional lean tools, advanced lean techniques, and lean principles—all of which TACTICS OF LEAN INNOVATION will cover—you will be able to modify behaviors and make a dramatic impact on your organization's performance.



12. There isn't a cookie-cutter approach for lean implementation. At the seminar, you will acquire the skills to design (or redesign) your personalized approach to lean transformation around a defined set of criteria.

Tactics of Lean Innovation Agenda

We will explore lean's five principles and the coordinated set of tools and techniques required for a successful lean implementation. Lean is more than a simple set of tools, and not all tools are appropriate for all organizations. Lean's five principles, however, are universal. Principles determine behavior, and behavior determines results. We'll identify the tools you'll need to support lean's five principles. We'll also examine the Toyota Production System and see how principles drive the four elements of its successful operating system—and how it can drive yours.

We will focus on the tactics of lean innovation. The ten tactics that savvy marketers employ for product rollouts can help you introduce and gain acceptance of your lean initiative throughout your organization. You'll discover how a combination of tactic pairs, such as clear message and compatible fit, can make all the difference.

You'll learn how to leverage the basics of lean to gain a maximum return on your investment. We will examine specific techniques, such as Lean Learning Laboratories, Lean Demonstration Projects, and Management Learning Laboratories, that you will be able to use to significantly leverage the effectiveness of Five S's, visual management, pull systems, and other basic lean tools. We'll also take a look at concepts, such as communication rooms, After Action Reviews, and A3s, that you can incorporate into the day-to-day management of your short-term and long-term performance objectives.

We will explore lean roadmaps. There are many criteria you'll need to consider before designing your lean roadmap (and you will need a roadmap), including: business conditions, culture, baggage, and resources. By examining your current state and other factors, you can chart the course that will best work for your organization.

Special Bonus

Team Discount Since effective lean transformation requires engagement throughout the organization, many participants bring a team to the seminar to achieve even better results—faster. To make this more affordable for your company, we offer a special discount: For every three people you send, the fourth is free.

FREE Book for Attendees Register for this program and receive a complimentary copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road by Jamie Flinchbaugh and Andy Carlino. This book reveals the most critical lessons learned over the authors' combined 30-plus years of exploring the lean highways.

Telephone Consultation We know questions may arise. That's why Andy and Jamie offer a free telephone consultation for 60 days after the program.