Start Your Lean Journey: Principles and Practices for Success

Are you an Operation Manager aiming to improve the work, results and well-being of your team?  Are you looking for a set of techniques to support your decision-making? Do you want to quickly be able to spot improvement points in the areas you’re in charge of? Then the ‘Introduction to Lean for managers’ training fits your needs! 

Training type: Open session and In Company

This training will enable you to

  • Summarize the fundamental principles of Lean philosophy
  • Locate the scope of application of the Lean methodology in companies

  • Compare the objectives of Lean tools and techniques used in product and process improvement

  • Identify different types of waste in a process and propose improvements

  • Recognize the added value of the lean method for your own company

  • Use Lean tools during decision-making on processes

Pedagogical approach

This one-day online training course, alternates short introductions of theoretical concepts, examples of applications in the service industry and practical exercises through real cases. At the end of the training, a business game, based on a fictitious case, lets the participant experience a business process improvement with the Lean method.

Content

  • Introduction and history of the Lean method
  • Principles of Lean
  • Fields of application of the Lean method in companies
  • Tools for products and services improvement (VOC, Kano)
  • The dimensions of a Lean process (Value, Flow, Pull, Standardize, Perfection)

This training is aimed for

  • Operation managers

No prerequisites are required.

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