Intro to Lean Thinking & Practice

Lean is about creating the most value for the customer while minimizing resources, time, energy, and effort. A lean approach to work is about understanding what’s really going on at the place where value is created, and improving the processes by which products and services are created and delivered.

This engaging, online, go-at-your-own-pace course is designed to give you an understanding of what lean is, what it might look like in your workplace, and how to start applying it.

This course works for people new to the concepts of lean and continuous improvement, for individuals looking to improve their lean understanding and skills, and for organizations wanting to level set the lean knowledge of their workforce to speed progress.

• Recognize where and how to apply lean principles, systems, and concepts, to increase value and eliminate waste in your daily work.
• Resolve business challenges by using scientific method, PDCA-based problem-solving.
• Identify work activities as being “value-add,” “incidental,” or “waste” and understand how all three affect workflow.
• Understand the five dimensions of the Lean Transformation Framework and explain why all five are necessary for a transformation to occur