Lean 4 Business - Business Improvement, Turnaround Interim Management

Lean optimises flow through processes; crossing technologies, assets, and departments delivering a product to customers precisely when they want it.

By eliminating waste along entire value streams, instead of at isolated points, Lean creates processes that need less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time.

Lean makes products and services at far lower cost and with fewer defects, compared with traditional business systems.

Companies who are truly Lean are able to respond to changing customer demands with high variety, high quality, low cost, and with very fast throughput times.

What defines a perfect (Lean) process?

Value is specified backwards from the customer (VOC, customer perception of value) -

Every process step is:

Valuable - Waste free, (Tim Wood - 7 Wastes)
Capable - TQM, Six Sigma
Available - Total Productive Maintenance/Manufacturing
Adequate - Theory of constraints, levelled production
Flexible - Mass Customisation