Building a Lean Operating and Management System 

Learn how to create a lean operating and management system that will lead your organization through the changes needed to cultivate and support a lean, continuous-improvement, problem-solving culture.  

In this hands-on, simulation-based workshop, a veteran lean coach will guide you through how to develop an effective, flexible, lean operating system that continuously improves your organization’s business performance during both stable and fast-changing business conditions.   

You will experience ways to improve on-time delivery, product quality, and operational flexibility. 

Critically, you’ll learn how and why your management system must align the organizations’ strategy and business objectives throughout the organization and to the front line, including design of work and problem-solving at the gemba.

You’ll also grasp how and why integrating various lean practices and concepts — standardized work, pull system, kanban, and employee capability development — into a management system enables you to resolve problems, make breakthrough improvements, and meet business challenges head-on. 

Learning Objectives:

• Develop an in-depth understanding and the necessary skills for designing and implementing an effective and flexible lean operating system that adapts to changing business conditions.  
• Grasp the nuances of integral lean concepts like flow, standard work, kaizen, takt, and pull systems.   
• Understand leaders’ and managers’ critical roles in creating, sustaining, and improving a lean operating system.  

Enhance your learning further by also taking our Investing in Workers Using Job Methods and Job Instruction course, which complements the strategies you’ll develop in this workshop.

Who Should Participate?

Executive leadership teams and their top managers and employees who: 

• oversee any function in any industry, 
• have some understanding of essential lean terms or some experience with lean thinking and practices, and 
• would like to understand how to deploy lean thinking and practices as a system.

Discounts

• Register three or more students from your organization and save 12.5% off every registration. To receive a group discount, register as a group through the registration link and the discount will automatically apply.
• LEI Co-Learning Partners: Register before early bird deadline for $1,199.25. Register after early bird deadline for $1,499.25. No group discount can be applied.

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel your registration for in-person workshops four weeks before the course start date for a full refund. A cancellation occurring within two – four weeks of the workshop dates will be subject to a $350 fee. Cancelling less than two weeks prior to workshop start is subject to no refund. To cancel, please call LEI at (617) 871-2900 or email registrar@lean.org.