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Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service (1 Day Class)

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Description:
This interactive workshop demonstrates how to apply value-stream mapping, a fundamental and critical tool, to address what many companies find difficult to do: making a fundamental change in business processes such as administrative, professional, and transactional activities. You will see how the key elements of lean thinking and value-stream mapping apply to such activities by identifying key processes to tackle, drawing an accurate current-state map of each process, applying lean principles to envision a leaner future-state for each process, and implementing the future-state in a way that can be sustained.

Benefits:
Through instruction, discussion, group activities, and hands-on exercises, you will learn how to:

  • Identify a business process
  • See the entire value stream
  • Map the value stream to identify and eliminate waste
  • Redesign the value stream for improved cost, service, and quality
  • Create contemporary lean metrics to understand the performance of value streams
  • Connect improved enterprise communication with bottom-line performance
  • Improve customer response and service

 

Course Outline:

Lean Business Thinking

  • Basic lean terms, such as work, work process, customer, supplier, value, value stream, and lean
  • The fundamental approach of lean
  • Key lean principles
  • What it means for an organization to be lean

Identification of waste in non-production value streams

  • Definition of waste
  • 7 types of waste
  • What waste looks like in a business process

Current-State Value-Stream Map

  • What is a value-stream map?
  • Benefits of value-stream mapping for business and service processes
  • Current-state mapping icons
  • Business process metrics supporting value-stream transformation
  • Use of the value-stream mapping tool to document and analyze a current-state map
  • Case study: Apply lean thinking to develop a current-state map

Future-State Value-Stream Map

  • Lean business process in value-stream terms
  • Identification of the problems to be addressed in a future-state design
  • Future-state mapping icons
  • Case study: Use a 5-step process to develop a future-state map
  • Summary of results: potential impact of the changes made in the future-state map

Achieving the Future State

  • Recommendations to improve planning and implementation
  • What you need agreements on to create a plan
  • Goals and Actions
    • PDCA: the driving force for successful future-state implementation
    • Development of meaningful metrics to assess the effectiveness of improvements

Who Should Attend:

Change agents from any industry with business-process value streams, including processes winding through marketing, sales, order entry, engineering, purchasing, human resources, scheduling, accounting, and quality control, who want to improve their business processes in order to deliver more value to their customers while consuming fewer resources.

Instructors:
James (Beau) Keyte

Beau began his lean consulting career in the mid-1980s in the automotive industry, transitioned to adapting lean techniques to service and administrative processes in 1992, and has since progressed from implementing tools and techniques to developing and teaching the kind of self-sufficient thinking that challenges work and management processes, improves organizational performance and alignment, and sustains culture change. He now spends half of his time in the healthcare arena where he is designing new ways for organizations to engage, learn, grow, and succeed. In addition to assisting companies in implementing lean strategies, he also trains organizations in a variety of public and private settings. He is currently partner in the Lean Transformations Group and a faculty member and instructor for curricula at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University. Beau authored a number of journal articles and the Shingo-Award winning book The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Office and Administrative Processes. He also an author of Perfecting Patient Journeys and Mapping to See: A Value-Stream Improvement Kit for Office and Service. Beau holds BSE and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan. .

 

David Verble

David applied his organizational skills at Toyota's Georgetown, KY, plant where he worked in management and organizational development during the facility’s startup phase and beyond. During his 10 years at Toyota, David became the manager of Human Resource Development at Georgetown and then manager of Human Resource Development for North American Manufacturing at Toyota's manufacturing headquarters in Erlanger, KY. Before his tenure at Toyota, David was responsible for organizational development as assistant to the Dean of the College of Education, University of Kentucky. He currently aids companies implementing lean through Lean Transformations Group.

 

 

Jim Luckman

Jim Luckman has had the unique experience of leading three separate lean transformations, as a Plant Manager, as a Director of a Research and Development Center, and as a CEO of a small start-up company. Jim is the Past President and CEO of iPower Technologies, a company serving the distributed generation market of electrical power. Luckman has worked in the auto industry for 34 years working at Delphi Automotive (formerly part of General Motors). Jim current efforts include leadership coaching, application of lean in R&D and application of lean to software development. He currently coaches companies interested in company-wide lean transformation. Jim is a partner in Lean Transformations Group, LLC

Kirk Paluska

Kirk got his start at JDS Uniphase where he served in several roles, including managing lean deployment and wafer fab operations. He also helped four other JDS Uniphase plants begin lean initiatives. Kirk has held operations and engineering positions with National Semiconductor Corporation and has seven years experience as an internal ISO/QS/TL 9000 auditor. Kirk is co-author of Mapping to See, a kit for lean practitioners to improve value-stream performance in office and service settings. Kirk now helps companies in a variety of industries including service, healthcare, as well as manufacturing through the Lean Transformations Group, where he is a founding partner. He specializes in coaching managers as they lead value-stream improvement implementation and use it as a way to incorporate continuous improvement practices into their regular work. Kirk received his MBA in Operations and Accounting from the University of Michigan and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Swarthmore College.

Tom Shuker

Tom is a 30-year veteran in various manufacturing environments within General Motors Corporation. Tom has also spent two-years at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), the GM-Toyota joint venture, working within the Toyota Manufacturing System and performing lean assessments of Toyota facilities in Kentucky and Japan. Tom has co-authored two books on Lean, Value Stream Management and Value Stream Management for the Lean Office, both published through Productivity Press, Inc. Tom is also a co-author of Mapping to See – A Value-Stream Improvement Kit for Office and Service, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University, and an MBA from Western Michigan University. He currently aids companies implementing lean through an investment group that purchases small manufacturing firms and helps turn them around and as a member of the consulting group Lean Transformations Group.

Judy Worth

Judy Worth got her first introduction to lean from one of her business partners, who left their company in Lexington, KY, to work at the start up of Toyota’s first North American plant in Georgetown, KY. She got additional exposure to the value-stream mapping tool when she served as instructional designer for LEI’s Mapping to See Kit for lean in office and services. For the past four years, Judy’s focus has been on implementing lean in healthcare. She has extensive experience facilitating value-stream mapping workshops in healthcare organizations, including hospitals and primary care, and has also provided training and coaching services for healthcare in-house lean facilitators. Judy is the co-author of a white paper on lean competencies, “Building Capability for Success with Lean: The Critical Competencies.” She currently aids companies implementing lean through Verble, Worth, and Verble, and the Lean Transformations Group.

Karl Ohaus

Karl Ohaus received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University, School of Engineering, in 1980. For the first 10 years of his career he worked in product testing, design and development for American Standard. During this time, as a Senior Design Engineer, Karl had responsibility for new projects from concept to delivery to the customer. This exposure to manufacturing and design in both the US and Europe was excellent training and provided Karl with a deep understanding of a wide range of processes and technologies. He was awarded 10 patents during this time. In 1991 Karl joined a company manufacturing machined parts for the automotive industry. Starting in 1995 as President, Karl led the company’s transition to Lean manufacturing. Karl began educating and consulting in Lean implementation and process improvement in 2003. He draws on his experience using the Lean principles and tools to help client companies create process flow, improve operational performance and better address the needs of the business. Karl’s coaching stresses the management development and employee engagement aspects of change to a Lean enterprise.

Workshop Suggestion:
To maximize your learning experience we recommend that prior to attending this program you take following workshop or have a good understanding of the concepts presented within it.
Suggested Reading for this Workshop:
Price: $800.00 ($700.00 if the participant is taking 2 or more workshops at one location)
Price includes all participant materials, breakfast, lunch and snacks each day
Locations and Dates for Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service
June 17, 2013  
Lean Enterprise Institute
Cambridge, MA
Instructor(s): Karl Ohaus
Schedule: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
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