Intro to Lean Thinking & Practice
An introduction to the essential concepts of lean thinking and practice.
Location
Online – On-Demand, Self-Paced
Why you should attend
Get a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts of lean thinking and practice, including the philosophy, principles, practices, and tools.
Cost
$249
This in-depth, self-paced learning experience will set you on a path toward adopting lean thinking and practice, an approach to managing work improvement to ensure your organization to creates the most value for your customer while reducing waste by minimizing resources, time, energy, and effort.
In addition to learning about the foundation and history of lean thinking and practice, you’ll get a clear definition of lean thinking and practice, a look at what it might look like in your workplace, and advice on how to begin applying it.
The Lean Transformation Framework
With this go-at-your-own-pace online learning experience, you’ll get an introduction to each element of the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF), a proven systematic approach to achieving continuous improvement at every level, from executive-level strategy to frontline operations. By understanding the LTF, you’ll not only understand the essential elements of lean thinking and practice. But you’ll also see how the various lean concepts, methods, and tools fit — and work — together.
Lean thinking and practice help organizations become innovative and competitive, which ensures they become sustainable.
Narrated by John Shook, Toyota’s first American manager in Japan, Senior Advisor of the Lean Enterprise Institute, and Chairman of the Lean Global Network, this learning experience guides you through a comprehensive description of lean thinking and practice’s essential elements, with emphasis on practical, hands-on exercises. In addition to learning by doing, you’ll engage with videos, PowerPoint presentations, articles, case examples, and book excerpts.
The information and insight delivered in this learning experience will enable you to begin applying lean principles, practices, and tools to improve your and your company’s work processes by providing you with the getting-started essentials. As you learn and practice them during the course, you will launch your never-ending journey toward creating perfect work processes and workplaces.
Who Will Benefit?
- Individuals who aim to enhance their career prospects by adopting lean/continuous improvement principles, practices, and mindset
- Lean practitioners who feel they must fill in learning gaps or refresh their lean thinking and practice knowledge and skills
- Leaders, from mid-level managers to top executives, who are trying to level up their team’s knowledge of lean thinking and practice to speed progress, including continuous-improvement and human-resource leaders
What Will I Learn?
Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Recognize where and how to apply lean principles, systems, and concepts to increase value and eliminate waste in your or your organization’s daily work.
- Resolve business challenges by using the scientific-method-based plan-do-check-act (PDCA) improvement cycle.
- Identify work activities as being “value-add,” “incidental,” or “waste” — and understand how all three types affect workflow efficiency and productivity.
- Understand the five dimensions of the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF).
- Explain why all five LTF dimensions are necessary for achieving lean transformation.
What Else Should I Know?
Get a head start or supplement your online learning. This ebook helps beginner and mid-stage Lean Thinkers gain a more comprehensive understanding of lean thinking and practice — and refreshes advanced practitioners’ knowledge:
Also, though no prerequisite training or reading is required, having familiarity with lean management basics will be helpful. We recommend the following books:
Kaizen Express by Toshiko Narusawa and John Shook
Lean Lexicon 5th Edition by Lean Enterprise Institute
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Define Lean Thinking & Practices
Identify and Differentiate Between Value and Waste
John Shook
Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute
John Shook learned about lean management while working for Toyota for 11 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI and other operations around the world. While at Toyota’s headquarters, he became the company’s first American kacho (manager) in Japan. In the U.S., Shook joined […]
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