Lean Assessment
You have embarked on a Lean Value Stream Transformation, or you are planning on doing so. How well are you doing? What is the potential for further progress? Or where should you envisage getting started?
Lean Business France’s two-day Lean Assessment analysis is a structured approach to provide you with guidance on how best to allocate resources as you start off or continue on your Lean journey. It gives you a third-party expert evaluation of your company’s ability to execute those tasks that are most important to your customers, quickly and reliably.
Covering all aspects of Lean Management, and making use of our own experience, our assessment delivers:
- a facilitated discussion on the lean strengths and weaknesses of your organisation,
- a preliminary identification of key processes needing changes or improvements,
- suggestions for short-term, immediate improvements,
- a solid base for planning further change initiatives.
We use on-site interviews, facility tours, data analysis and basic observation to develop our preliminary recommendations. Our typical approach is to :
- Conduct an overview of your business and understand the critical issues facing your company and the industry,
- Walk and observe an entire Value Stream to see the flow and any obvious interruptions,
- Discuss activities with appropriate representatives from each area,
- Compare our analysis and your own analysis of what is Value and what is Waste,
- Develop an understanding of the company’s culture and the readiness of your employees,
- Summarize the current state and present it back to you,
- Develop a tentative outline of potential next steps.
We will provide both immediate and written feedback on our recommendations and attempt to answer the questions “where do we start”, or “where do we go next”? To set up a meeting, please contact us at contact@leanbusiness.fr