Lean Operational Excellence for Service Organizations

 

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Date & Time
April 22-24
 

Location
Donald W. Reynolds Center
Fayetteville, AR
  

Fees
USD 2,350
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DAY 1: GETTNG STARTED ON LEAN
Map the Current Situation & Lean Service Opportunities

Introduction to Lean Operational Excellence for Service
  • Introduction to Lean principles, tools and techniques
  • What is Lean Six Sigma? How does it fit into a Six Sigma strategy?
  • How service organizations are using Lean to improve their bottom line for successful growth
Hands-on Case Exercises
  • Value stream mapping of current state of process
  • Diagramming your operations and ideal operations
Mapping Your Current State Processes to Identify Lean Opportunities
  • Building your Lean project team
  • Value Stream Mapping of currentstate process
  • Building spaghetti diagrams
  • Reviewing baseline process metrics
  • Validating the current state process

DAY 2:  HOW TO DRIVE A LEAN ORGANIZATION
Methods and Tools to Achieve Lean Service Excellence

Improving Service Quality & Performance Results
  • Establishing metrics for Lean Services
  • Identifying "eight" sources of waste
  • Implementing 5S for Service operations
  • Visual controls that work in a Service environment
Key Principles for Lean Success
  • Error-proofing your key operations and activities
  • Applying one-touch principles that reduce cost
  • Quick set-up principles for Service processes

DAY 3:  LEAN ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
Building and Sustaining a Lean Service Strategy

Designing Lean Into Your Processes
  • Establishing and maintaining standard work practices
  • Designing work cells for Lean Service operations
  • Balancing workflow to reduce cost and improve service
Building & Sustaining Your Lean Organization
  • Value stream mapping your future process state
  • Actions plans to achieve and sustain the Lean improvements
  • Conducting Kaizen improvements events & building a Lean culture
  • Typical Lean implementation structure, roles and activities
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