Lean Process Improvement

by Ross Maynard

Lean centres on encouraging skilled and motivated people across the organisation to work together to improve the efficiency of processes. Understand the concepts at the heart of the lean philosophy, and consider its application within your organisation.

price €85+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Understand the benefits of the lean philosophy
  • Establish the starting point and stages in a lean improvement project
  • Define value stream mapping (VSM), and the outcome you wish to achieve in an improvement project
  • Understand the principles of good process design and the key tools of lean improvement
  • Structure your organisation's lean improvement efforts, including the composition of an improvement team and the stages that the improvement team should work through

About the course

Lean is a philosophy. It centres on encouraging skilled and motivated people across the organisation to work together to improve the efficiency of processes. It allows us to create a system where we can use time we used to spend rectifying mistakes on more profitable activities.

The approach has gained tremendous traction over the last 15 years, and organisations all over the world are now applying the principles of lean improvement. Nevertheless, lean remains something of an enigma – many people do not fully understand its core philosophy. The efficiencies gained from lean improvement can be used to serve more customers and develop new products and services. Now enhanced with additional case studies and video interviews with the author, this course will help you to understand the concepts and beliefs at the heart of the lean philosophy, and to think through its application within your organisation.

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Contents

  • What is lean?
    • The history of lean
    • What is lean?
    • Why choose lean?
    • People vs tools
    • The doctrine of marginal gains
    • Five principles of lean
    • Principles of the lean philosophy
    • The lean improvement plan
    • The improvement team
  • Customer value and waste
    • The voice of the customer
    • What does the customer want?
    • Defining value
    • Work that doesn't add value
    • The nine wastes
    • Cost impacts of waste
    • Lean in the real world
  • Mapping the value stream
    • Defining the value stream
    • Value streams
    • The voice of the process
    • Value stream mapping
    • VSM symbols
    • VSM tips
    • Problem statements and goal statements
  • A culture of improvement
    • Creating the right culture
    • Getting the most from your team
    • Empowering and engaging people
    • Measuring success
    • Resistance to change
    • Overcoming resistance
  • Reviewing problems
    • Improving the process
    • Process problem analysis
    • Lean improvement tools
    • Lean process design principles
    • Testing solutions
  • Creating the right structure
    • Creating a structure
    • Structural elements
    • Coordinating the process
    • Improving the improvement team
    • Developing an improvement plan
    • Dealing with difficult issues
    • Closing the project
    • Making time for improvements
    • Getting started
    • Final thoughts

How it works

Author

Ross Maynard

Ross has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.

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Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours4 unitshourshours
Access period120 days
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Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
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Total CPD unitshourshours21 units20 hours21 hours
Access period120 days
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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Team

Keep your whole team up to date.

Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours800+ unitshourshours
Access period12+ months
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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