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Training & Consulting for Organizations​ / Lean Enterprise Transformation​

Lean Enterprise Transformation​

Transform Your Enterprise for Long-Term Success

Enterprise transformation requires more than deploying lean tools. It requires a strategic, people-centered approach. LEI partners with executives and senior leadership to build systems that drive performance and develop capability across the business.

What We Bring to Your Transformation

  • Application of the Lean Transformation Framework
  • Gemba-based leadership coaching at all levels
  • A focus on value-driven purpose, not templated solutions

What is a Lean Enterprise?

A lean enterprise is organized to continuously identify what customers value, while adapting to market changes. It constantly seeks more effective methods to deliver value and strives to do so at the highest quality and lowest cost:

  • Through product and process development,
  • During fulfillment from order through production to delivery
  • Continually improving the products and/or service’s life cycle

Lean enterprises (both ongoing firms and start-ups), teams, and individual practitioners, undertake lean transformation by endlessly addressing fundamental questions of purpose, process, and people as depicted in the Lean Transformation Framework.

Lean Enterprise Transformation​
Co-Learning Partners

Struggling to Scale Lean Thinking Across the Enterprise?

Through Co-Learning Partnerships, LEI helps companies and organizations unlock the potential of their people to have a bigger impact on their customers and the bottom-line, thereby becoming “lean enterprises.” 

LEI’s Co-Learning Partner Program is for people looking to impact their enterprise and, in turn, contribute to the lean thinking and practice body of knowledge. Throughout the partnership, you will address your business challenges, meet your business goals, and solve your business problems. Partners working with LEI expect breakthrough performance.  

“Co-Learning” means everyone learns from each other. Partners develop their capabilities for innovation, improvement, and problem-solving as LEI provides coaching and guidance. Partners also learn from one another, peer to peer. This approach enables LEI to continually discover and disseminate new ways to advance lean thinking and practice.

Ready to tackle your business problems and discover how LEI can help you and your organization grow and succeed?

 

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Our Approach to Sustainable Lean Transformation

A Co-Learning Partnership does not begin with a preconceived plan. Instead, together, LEI and its Partners use the Lean Transformation Framework to define their situational challenge(s) or problem(s) to solve and design a better future. On the path forward, LEI coaches its Partners through the application of lean thinking and practice in the real world. In other words, Partners learn by actually running and improving their business.

By offering targeted, immersive experiences, LEI Coaches ensure you get work done and achieve your business goals while developing your team’s capabilities with lean thinking and practice. This approach ensures that you will sustain your improvements and newly developed, lean know-how. Ultimately, LEI strives to increase the capability of the organization such that its services are no longer necessary.  Doing so ensures you can further improve and transform on your own. In every Co-Learning Partnership, LEI’s intention is to develop the organization such that it maintains its capability and further develops independently as soon as possible.

As an LEI Co-Learning Partner, depending on an agreed upon scope of work, you can gain access to exclusive learning opportunities:

  • Hands-on, expert coaching to tackle your toughest business problems and develop your organization’s problem-solving capability.
  • Advanced Lean Leader Development Coaching for top executives that instills the leadership mindset and behaviors that sustain a lean culture
  • LEI-Partner Gemba Tours that are customized to meet your specific situation and current needs.
  • LEI Learning Groups that accelerate your learning through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
  • Customized 1:1 Executive Coaching

Hear What Our Partners Are Saying

“When we began to look closely at the work and break it down between value-add, nonvalue-add, and waste, we realized the jobs were hard to do successfully and frustrating for workers.”

Rich Vellante, Former Executive Chef

“LEI coached us on how to approach problems and solve them permanently. But we did not want to be tethered to them for the next 100 years. Through LEI’s ‘train-the-trainer’ method, we learned how to coach others in problem-solving.”

Charlie Whitney, Vice President and General Manager, Turner Construction Company

“The reason we were able to outperform competitors during the Covid-19 crisis was because of the strength of our lean enterprise.”

Kevin Nolan, CEO, GE Appliances, a Haier Company

“We realized the full potential of our product when we redesigned the value stream addressing engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and services.”

Paulo Couto, Senior Vice President of Engineering, TechnipFMC

Learn more about our
Co-Learning Partnership
and why you should partner
with LEI.

 

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A Sample of Partner Results

Lean Enterprise Transformation​

LEI Learning Experiences Beyond CLP Coaching

  • Joined two LEI-sponsored Executive Learning Tours to Japan
  • Convened a 100-person team at the Lean Summit 2019
  • Participated in LEI’s Lean Leader Program to rapidly develop capable problem-solving coaches and problem solvers
  • Visited MillerKnoll to see practitioners use lean thinking in a day-to-day work environment

Proven Results

  • Reduced safety-incident rate from 5 to 1.26
  • Reduced panel installation time by 50% and cable installation time by 90% at two projects
  • Reduced curtain wall installation damage by 95% on a major NYC project

LEI Learning Experiences Beyond CLP Coaching

  • Joined an LEI-sponsored Executive Learning Tour to Japan · Hosted two kaizen activities to develop kaizen capability
  • Participated in semi-annual Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) Learning Group meetings, 2015 to present
  • Hosted an LEI-sponsored Co-Learning Partner meeting in 2017

Proven Results

  • Increased production schedule achievement from 31.8% to 90%, which represented over $20 million in annual revenue
  • Reduced foam-injection machine’s cycle time by 26% with zero capital expenditure.

 

LEI Learning Experiences Beyond CLP Coaching

  • Participated in semi-annual Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) Learning Group meetings, 2016 to present
  • Hosted an LEI-sponsored LPPD Learning Group meeting in 2016
  • Visited MillerKnoll to learn from its engineering team
  • Attended two Designing the Future Summits, 2018 and 2019, and three Lean Summits, 2017 through 2019
  • Joined an LEI-sponsored Executive Learning Tour to Japan

Proven Results

  • Redesigned Subsea 2.0 oil and gas system with 33% fewer parts, 50% less weight, and 50% less size than the previous generation
  • Reduced lead time on future orders by 33%
  • Attained cost and development time targets on Subsea 2.0

 

Explore Our Case Studies

LEI Restaurant Partner Story

Learn how a restaurant’s management team discovers that enabling cooks to stay focused
on value creation improves business performance and makes them more effective leaders.

 

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LEI Turner Partner Story Cover

Learn how Turner Construction uses hoshin kanri (strategy deployment) and A3 problem-solving to create a management system that ensures it achieves its strategic business objectives.

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LEI Partner Story Mercer

Transform Your Enterprise for Long-Term SuccessLearn how Mercer Celgar adopted hoshin kanri to help transform how leaders lead and develop their team members’ capabilities.

 

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Ensuring-Success-of-Hoshin-Kanri-–-a-Better-Way-to-Plan-and-Execute-Your-Strategy

Logoplaste’s global vice president of lean and strategy shares a few vital lessons, learned through experience, about a proven way to set and achieve your organization’s annual strategic objectives.

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LEI Partner story: Turner Constriuction

Learn how a lean mindset and practices are reining in workplace disruptions, minimizing workers’ physical aches and pains, and improving flow at Turner Construction.

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Cover-How-to-Improve-Decision Ebook

Learn how GE Appliance’s next-generation dishwasher development team created a decision-flow mapping process to eliminate project delays.

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Explore all our case studies »

Companies Who Have Partnered with LEI

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Kalsec
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Pella Windows
GE appliances logo
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TechnipFMC

If you are interested in exploring a partnership with LEI, schedule time to speak with a lean coach.

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