Developing Lasting Capability Inside the Organization

If your intent is to promote operational efficiency and transform your culture through the adoption of Lean and Continuous Improvement methods, you're going to need:

• Aligned and engaged Leadership who have a common vision and vocabulary for improvement.
• A standard toolset and approach to drive consistency across production and business systems
• Broad engagement and expert internal capability.
• A rationalized improvement portfolio that maps to your business strategies, and a roadmap to achieve it.

While many organizations have a goal of transformation, they often find significant gaps in the success factors listed above. Kaufman Global is expert at bringing these key elements together to help our clients achieve their objectives. 

How We Do It

Our Lean Leadership service offerings drive alignment, create internal capability, ensure sustainability and establish a culture of continuous improvement that drives ongoing results. Typically conducted in parallel with site-specific improvement initiatives, our services maximize and accelerate benefits and returns.

Our expertise includes:

Leadership Development Workshops | Customized for top management participants, these sessions focus on the role of leadership in transforming their part of the business by applying Lean principles.  Participants gain a thorough understanding of:

• Lean concepts and Lean Enterprise
• The role of leadership in implementing Lean Enterprise
• Developing the right culture and behaviors to support Lean
• Sustaining change

Lean Leadership Flight Training | Our proprietary program for teaching and enabling 10 to 15 client change agents at a time to drive and sustain performance results in operations, office and supply chain. High potential candidates are drawn from multiple locations and work side-by-side with our team members to develop expert Lean skills by working on real operational improvement opportunities.

Results

Our approach is flexible and always customized for specific client needs. Select examples include:

• For a global aerospace and automotive organization delivered Lean Enterprise transformation workshops to their top 600 leaders at 35 host sites around the world.
• For a high profile food and beverage manufacturer, trained 65 global change agents who drove $15M in savings from improvements within Corporate Business Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Pricing and Innovation value streams.
• For a global medical technology company, trained 13 Lean Leaders representing eight sites in six European countries. These resources drove $2M in savings and an $850K inventory reduction during the course of the project.

Download our Creating Lean Leaders white paper to learn more