Programs
KAIZEN Lean Assessment
An Operational Assessment by KAIZEN Institute Lean Advisors helps your organization tackle key operational issues to increase productivity, improve working capital, reduce costs, and reduce lead time impacting business bottom line performance and customer satisfaction.
KAIZEN Lean Fast Track Program
The KAIZEN Lean Fast Track Program is an end-to-end system focused on a Value Stream Transformation Pilot of 3 months. One or two value streams are selected and all activities are analyzed to determine value and non-value (waste). An Implementation Plan is developed detailing the systematic elimination of the waste.
Program Duration: 3-4 months
Program Level: New to KAIZEN Lean
KAIZEN Lean Implementation Program
An end-to-end (system) focused, 4-6 month Value Stream Transformation Pilot. 2-4 Value Streams are selected for the transformation. All activities in these Value Streams will be analyzed to determine value and non-value (waste). An Implementation Plan will be developed that details how the waste will be systematically eliminated.
Program Duration: 4-6 months
Program Level: New to KAIZEN Lean
KAIZEN Lean Enterprise Transformation Program
An end-to-end (system) focused, Enterprise Value Stream Transformation. Multiple Value Streams are selected for the transformation. All activities in these Value Streams will be analyzed to determine value and non-value (waste). An Enterprise Implementation Plan will be developed that details how the waste will be systematically eliminated.
Program Duration: TBD
Program Level: Pilot Complete
KAIZEN Lean Leadership and Change Management
To manage change ‘the right way’, executives need to set clear targets for measurable return even in the so-called ‘soft skills’ training associated with change. Too often Change Management programs seem to focus on ‘feel good’ platitudes rather than on creating behavioral benchmarks.
Program Duration: 1-3 Day Workshops
Program Level: New to KAIZEN Lean
KAIZEN Lean and Continuous Improvement Model
Who Should Attend
- Leaders, CEOs, CFOs, Presidents
- Cross Functional Teams are Encouraged to Attend
- Employees from Education and Training, Office Management
- Managers of Operations, Service, Manufacturing, Administration, Human Resources
- Directors/Coordinators of Six Sigma, TQM, KAIZEN Lean or Improvement Initiatives
Learning Objectives and Benefits
- Understand how the KAIZEN Management SystemTM your organization’s culture, initiatives, programs, and tools, thereby enhancing return on investment of any individual initiative
- How to assess your organization’s culture and readiness to sustain a KAIZEN Management SystemTM
- Recognize and leverage opportunities for improvement that advance the organization’s strategic goals
- Use Value Stream Mapping to identify both material excesses and opportunities to improve cash flow, productivity, and capacity utilization
- Develop an understanding of waste that allows you to recognize opportunities to improve
- Learn how to do Value Stream Mapping of the future state and link this to the improvement roadmap
KAIZEN Lean Supply Chain - Total Flow Management (TFM)
Who Should Attend
- Employees from Production, Planning, Distribution
- Employees from Material Control, Manufacturing Control
- Employees from Education and Training, Office Management
- KAIZEN Lean Promotion Office
- Anyone tasked with installing and implementing TFM and KAIZEN Lean
- Understand Total Flow Management principles
- Understand the results of using TFM
- Learn to implement TFM successfully through simulation
- Use systematic TFM processes to identify and eliminate waste in core and support processes to build a lean and energetic enterprise
Introduction to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
This four day long training class provides on-site analysis of your current state maintenance program. Recommendations for improvements to achieve the first steps of a Total Productive Maintenance program (TPM) are presented. Training a selected team on TPM principles is one of the objectives along with implementing TPM processes. The team will leave the session with a detailed understanding of TPM, how to start the process and the benefits. The team will be provided with a customized implementation plan for achieving the first steps of TPM.
Total Quality Management (TQM)
We can deliver on-site at your organization a straightforward two-day problem solving workshop that teaches your people the tools that they need to find the root causes of most value stream quality problems, and then shows them how to implement permanent fixes to these problems. Real problems from the workplace are used in class as practice examples. The result of the Quality and KAIZEN Lean workshop is a transfer of knowledge to your team that will be invaluable in continuing to solve quality problems and improving Flow. Fully experienced members of KAIZEN Institute Lean Advisors Inc. lead the Quality and KAIZEN Lean workshop.
KAIZEN® Lean Administration Total Services Management (TSM)
Who Should Attend
- Leaders, CEOs, Presidents, CFOs
- Managers of Operations, Administration, Human Resources
- Supervisors, Department Managers, Engineers, Analysts
- Directors/Coordinators of TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, Quality, or Improvement Initiatives
- KAIZEN Lean Promotion Office personnel
It is critical that anyone who intends to earn certification as a KAIZEN Lean ® Practitioner, Coach, or Manager attend this program.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
- Learn the origins of KAIZEN Lean and the KAIZEN Lean way of thinking
- Sharpen waste consciousness by observing model operations
- Understand specific methods to identify and systematically remove recognized waste
- Learn the foundations of KAIZEN Lean, the KAIZEN Lean way of thinking, and how it applies to your organization, department and function
- Special emphasis on applying KAIZEN Lean principles to the Office and Administrative environment