We offer a scalable set of consulting services ranging from Initial Engagement to Full Transformation that is a proven and easy to follow blueprint for success. Our unique capabilities to engage and inspire both on-site and virtually gives our clients the maximum support for their lean implementation needs.  

Areas of Focus:

• Lean Thinking Principles & Practices (Engaging Hearts & Minds)

• Simplifying Complexity (Value Chain Optimization)

• Visualizing & Improving Standardization (3 Big Ideas)

• Takt, Flow, Small Batch and then Pull Thinking (JIT Principles)

• Total Management System Architecture (TMS=TPS+TPM+TQM+TPD)

• Insistent, Consistent & Persistent (Driving Lean Leadership Behaviors)

As Lean Mentors & Coaches, we enable leaders at all levels to focus on a variety of best practices and approaches designed to support solution identification and resolution for most business challenges.  Through 1-on-1 & Group Coaching Sessions our systematic approach to common leadership practices, help focus execution and lean mindset & behavioral changes.  Our “thinking people system” incorporates the following:

• Strategic Direction: Clear purpose and rationale for optimization changes (focused strategic leadership with deliverables via Hoshin’s or Lean Outcome Trees)

• Talent Development: Leveraging capability and capacity (competency) to lead and sustain the new practices or way of working (people engagement)

• System Thinking: Developing an End to End perspective of the value chain and implementing systems not tools, for greater impact and long-term influence (process optimization & improvement)

• Outcome Driven: Focus only on the few “wildly important” metrics that impact your business and improve the overall customer experience (performance management)

75+ Workshops addressing various proficiency levels that cover, Foundational Knowledge, Intermediate Knowledge and Advanced Knowledge in the application and utilization of TPS best practices.

• Basic workshops are Informative & Action Oriented including 6 Core Fundamental Workshops that engage the mind, influence real processes and delivers outcomes.

• Intermediate includes a variety of Customized Practical Workshops that are designed specifically to develop the skill sets and competencies to facilitate small to medium scoped events & projects.

• Advanced covers Change Agents of Complexity enabling a deeper level of knowledge that expands across the value chain for end-to-end optimization of the business enterprise.

Our Japan Lean Immersion Tours are life changing events that are critical to any lean transformation. From the moment you arrive in Japan to the time you depart, we ensure that your every experience is a special one. Each day we visit a different site that is designed to “stretch” the traditional applications of Lean so that participants come away with a clear understanding of what good looks like for their business or team. Our lean practitioners, facilitators and staff members bring extensive real-world experiences in implementing Lean Production & Management Systems globally.  Here is why you should join us:

• Total Immersion:  Immerse yourself in the birthplace of LEAN and learn how it breathes life into a variety of different industries and businesses while indulging your senses & experiencing the warm hospitality of the Japanese culture.

• Practical Application of Concepts:  Visualize operational & transactional lean systems in action, experience lean activities like the 7 minute changeover, plus hear & question the Lean Leaders and Executives driving the transformation to learn from their journey on how they changed mindsets & behaviors. 

• Drive Specific Outcomes:  Create a powerful how-to “roadmap” for your culture that enables you to reach that next level of performance through the systematic application of growing people and leaders, increasing overall productivity and capacity, while reducing operational costs and enhancing the customer experience journey.    

Now more than ever, CEOs have to embrace the challenges of more digitalization by working collectively with your core leadership team(s) in identifying and implementing a strategic approach for all Industry 4.0 initiatives (IoT, IIoT, IoP, CPS, RPA, MES, AI, etc.).  Stop taking a functional or band-aid approach of adopting technologies or digital solutions to help fix pain points generated by inadequate systems or processes within the business.  This kind of approach typically causes more issues than they solve and always bleeds more resources.  Start selectively modernizing your technical capabilities.  Begin to think with an end-to-end perspective for true value chain optimization (order to cash) by outlining the business, its critical chain and using those digital models (current and future states w/improvements) to simulate the impact.  By mining the data and simulating the impact, more effective and efficient ways of managing during this crisis as well as during normal operations, will help us with planning, forecasting, mergers & acquisitions, creating more value and of course, risk avoidance.