Putting Lean to Work in Your Business
Description
Rapidly increase efficiency and reduce costs while improving service. Learn Lean techniques that cost you minimal or no capital money. In this course you will learn the principles, see them applied, and come away with an action plan for your business or organization. Using our operations as an example we can show you first hand how the principles of Lean work for service & healthcare related businesses. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to turn their business, department, or organization into a Lean and profitable operation.
Objectives:
- Provide practical tools and techniques to identify and eliminate waste in your operations that you can immediately apply to your business
- Provide a compelling vision of the benefits of a Lean culture and mindset
- Facilitate the development of an action plan for your organization
Typical Agenda:
Day 1
- Learn Lean Principles – how to identifying waste (Muda)
- Learn Lean Principles – what Lean techniques to use to address specific waste or problems
- Pal’s Store Tour
- Discuss use of Lean at Pal’s store and how to apply to your operations
Day 2
- Learn Lean Principles – how to apply Lean techniques to eliminate waste (5S, Visual, POUS, Value Stream Map, etc.)
- Discuss how Pal’s has applied Lean techniques to eliminate waste
- Q&A session with Pal’s CEO Thom Crosby
- Develop and review plans for using Lean techniques in your operations
