Improvement Facilitation
Implementing Lean
While the power of Lean methodologies and Lean Process Improvement is undisputed, Continuous Improvement will not simply happen within your organization. And, as we learned from Jeff Liker in Becoming Lean, simply providing training and expecting great things to happen is a failed strategy. Lean Process Improvement efforts MUST be facilitated.
Leitner Consulting Group has a proven track record of successfully guiding organizations through their Lean journey. One of the most powerful ways we help is through professional facilitation of teams and projects along the journey. Our facilitation:
- Develops your most critical resource – the human one
- Learn by doing approach – bias for action
- Connects efforts to business goals and needs – goal deployment
- Ensures all stakeholders receive benefit
- Customers
- Employees
- Organization
While the number of organizations that have embarked on Lean Transformations over the last 30+ years is almost immeasurable, far too many have failed or been dissatisfied with their Lean efforts. From our perspective, virtually all of them have had these similar characteristics:
- Clear Need – organizations undertaking Lean transformations have very clear needs and seemingly unlimited opportunities.
- Desire to Improve –at virtually every level of the organization (especially within leadership) there was a very clear desire to see improvement happen – for various reasons.
- Commitment of Resources –Lean implementation efforts are usually staffed to some degree with either part-time or full-time resources and these resources are given financial backing
So why then do so many efforts fail?
The answer to that is also very clear and all too common:
Incorrect Approach
Proven Lean Transformation Approach
Leitner Consulting Group is a successful process improvement consulting firm because we ensure that your organization uses a proven improvement methodology to realize significant results:
- Ensuring efforts are tied to key organizational goals and needs
- Ensuring the proper level of resources are committed in the proper fashion
- Scoping properly sized projects and efforts to ensure movement along the journey
- Ensuring proper development of human resources
- Ensuring the timely progression to your improvement efforts being organic