Maasaki Imai (Father of Kaizen) is quoted as saying Kaizen, otherwise known as Continuous Improvement, means; Everybody, Everywhere, Everyday. The challenge/direction is clear; Engage people! Stay engaged yourself and spread commitment! Engaging employees is a needed and clear task of all Lean managers in organizations everywhere. Yet ironically even the definitions of the word engagement […]
3-Day MDI-Managing for Daily Improvement Certification Course
What is MDI? It is a method of connecting information to action with short meetings for workers and staff at different levels using simple visual controls on localized communication boards to highlight performance hits and misses. Common key metrics include; Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost etc. When an organization deploys MDI, it essentially is rewiring […]
Coaching Excellence and Continuous Improvement
Top management must lead by example. They must go to the workplace to see the day-to-day, hour-by-hour problems and challenges and give people not the answers, but the time. Leaders must learn to inspire the curiosity and commitment to service guided by core values that serve both customer and company. This workshop aims to explore […]
4-Day Lean Leader Workshop
This 4-day interactive Lean Leader workshop will cover the relationships between lean tools, organizational leadership, and organizational culture. By exploring these relationships and practicing the skills we share each day, your leaders and your organization will begin behaving and thinking “lean”. While the workshop emphasizes tools and techniques, significant time will be spent on how […]
4-Day Lean Leader Workshop
This 4-day interactive Lean Leader workshop will cover the relationships between lean tools, organizational leadership, and organizational culture. By exploring these relationships and practicing the skills we share each day, your leaders and your organization will begin behaving and thinking “lean”. While the workshop emphasizes tools and techniques, significant time will be spent on how […]
4-Day Lean Leader Workshop
This 4-day interactive Lean Leader workshop will cover the relationships between lean tools, organizational leadership, and organizational culture. By exploring these relationships and practicing the skills we share each day, your leaders and your organization will begin behaving and thinking “lean”. While the workshop emphasizes tools and techniques, significant time will be spent on how […]
4-Day Lean Leader Workshop
This 4-day interactive Lean Leader workshop will cover the relationships between lean tools, organizational leadership, and organizational culture. By exploring these relationships and practicing the skills we share each day, your leaders and your organization will begin behaving and thinking “lean”. While the workshop emphasizes tools and techniques, significant time will be spent on how […]
Numbers
Lean Implementations and journeys require a variety of tools that are comprised of a variety of steps. Come join us for an action- packed breakfast session where we will review the purpose and meaning behind these fundamental methods and have a chance to clarify questions behind these exciting tools and topics in two hours! 10 […]
Lean Problem Solving – Twin Cities Continuous Improvement Consortium Special Interest Group Training Event
In the powerful world of continuous improvement, PROBLEMS are to be celebrated! Join us for this one day workshop on PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING. We will explore Practical Problem solving and more…the details behind the scenes. Problem Perception – Can we articulate in an objective way? Clarify the issue and “the Gap” –Can we measure this? […]
A Value Stream Transformation
Hear first hand from Ryan Falke of Marion Body Works Inc. about the growth Marion has experienced utilizing the value stream mapping process, creating an implementation plan and executing the plan. Optima’s Roger Wolfe and Chris Schermer, who have been working closely with Marion, will provide an overview of where Marion was, where they wanted […]