The Leading Edge Group is dedicated to providing consulting, facilitation, and educational support to the broad manufacturing sector. Our consultants have an international reputation for providing clients with practical and hands-on support. We enable our clients to become self-empowered and self-sufficient once they are appropriately trained and educated in the principles and techniques of Lean.
Our consultants support the need for organizations to implement a number of programs as part of the overall education and training process. The pilot program can help your staff to apply the learning to their everyday environment, show the positive results that can result from such an initiative, and act as a catalyst for future change.
Our team of consultants and trainers are experienced in teaching and applying Lean Thinking to a wide range of organizations. Our consulting experience includes:
- Lean Vision and Strategy
- Internal Program Management
- Capacity resource modelling
- Reduction in waiting times
- Streamlining of administrative processes
- Laboratory process optimization
We focus on your unique situation, and choose the methodology or combination of methodologies that can benefit your particular need.
To find out more please email info@leanscm.com
This is the operational starting point of any Lean journey. The purpose of this program is to develop a Lean governance structure to provide management and staff with a clear understanding of objectives, scope of activity, and required levels of management support. The following pillars will make up the program: assessing the current situation; strategic planning; team development and execution plan development.
The program will be focused on the following:
- Process review of Lean transformation critical steps to success – governance, leadership, and support criteria
- Develop “Burning Platform”
- Creating a shared need through identifying specific threats and opportunities and agreeing key constituents
- Develop “Vision” for Lean implementation
- The need for VOC Analysis
- Verify alignment of Lean with overall organizational strategy
- Lean organization - review – develop RACI to support vision
- Stakeholder Analysis with mitigation plan
- Resistance Analysis with mitigation plan
- Culture Transformational Plan (what is needed for success?)
- Elements of a successful Lean implementation plan
- Change management process – communication and engagement
- Lean implementation timeline
- Review other successes and failures (similar industries)
- Risk assessment
- Monitor results and learning
- Identify possible Lean implementation timeline improvements
- Create short term wins
- Holistic plan for Lean implementation
- Critical success factors: - HR practices reviewed; rewards reviewed; communication plan; best management practice; exchange network; scorecards / dashboards; maturity path reviews; accountability
- The Lean Implementation planning process
To find out more please email info@leanscm.com
This will include support in the following areas:
- Metric Development
- Voice of Customer (VOC) Analysis
- Change Management Planning
- Project Queue Development
- Candidate Selection
- Charter Development
- Maturity Path Review
- Tollgate Reporting
To find out more please email info@leanscm.com
