Lean 2 Innovative Thinking offers clients hands on practical facilitation in improving the performance of their organisation. We use the Lean Philosophy in tandem with the Creativity  and Innovation fields as the primary catalysts for  performance improvement.

 

We work with you organisation ‘s employees at all levels from senior leadership right down to the people delivering value on the frontlines.

 

We bring proven success stories from a wide range of industries including, hospitals and healthcare, manufacturing, office environments, financial services and logistics.

 

Lean is a culture change program that over time changes the thought process of all your employees enabling them to proactively improve their processes and products everyday. Lean is in essence working on the work and the systems that support the people doing the work. Our approach is to meet with your leadership team to determine your business priorities and perform an assessment of the current state of your organisations performance.

 

We use two audits to perform this assessment:

 

Lean Assessment
Creative and Innovative Workplace Study

This provides a baseline to clients as to current performance and improvement potential.

 

A commonly used diagnostic analysis is a Value Stream Map and this enables the development of a future state blueprint and helps us to decide which Lean and Creativity techniques to deploy to  realise  the full potential of your organisation.

 

Companies that have embraced Lean have experienced significant results. Numerous surveys on these organisations have reported major sales growth and market share gains based on:

60% reduction in cycle times

80% reduction in facility floor space

40% inventory reductions

50% improvement in quality

95% equipment Availability

80% reduction in changeover time

Less than 1% error rates