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Project Detail

Lean Turnaround focuses on quickly streamlining processes and driving performance to enable a struggling business or division to meet its customers’ needs, particularly in delivering its products and/or services in a timely and cost-effective manner. The approach will uncover and challenge handoffs, non-value-added work, flow issues, and variation in individual performance that are preventing the business from meeting its commitments to customers and/or shareholders.

Lean Enterprise redesigns processes to remove lead time and waste:

• Thoroughly understands the current process to identify sources of waste and lost time
• Applies principles of Value, Flow, Pull, and Perfection to streamline the process
• Creates a breakthrough change in process efficiency and effectiveness

Lean Redesign fits best when:

• Waste or inefficiency exists within process
• Willing/able to assess the whole process
• The intended goals are to reduce inventory and/or time—work or wait time
• Willing to consider “radical” change

Lean Redesign Steps:

• Focus: agree upon the process scope to be considered; assemble stakeholders; understand customers
• Discover: identify sources of excess cycle time & inventory (remove variation if necessary using Six Sigma DMAIC or Kaizen Workout)
• Streamline: improve efficiency
• Control: align “flow of value” with rate of customer demand and monitor