Growing Your Business Through Lean Process Improvement
Applying Basic Lean Principles to Any Type of Business
Every organization has processes. Those processes determine how efficiently work gets done, how customers are served, and how effectively resources are used.
Growing Your Business Through Lean Process Improvement introduces participants to basic Lean concepts and demonstrates how they can be applied to businesses and organizations of different sizes and types.
The course encourages learners to examine the way work currently gets done, identify unnecessary steps or inefficiencies, and consider ways to create simpler and more effective processes. Rather than presenting Lean only as a manufacturing concept, the courseemphasizes its practical application across many types of organizations.
Course topics may include
- Introduction to Lean thinking
- Understanding business processes
- Identifying unnecessary work and inefficiencies
- Examining how work moves through an organization
- Improving processes
- Increasing efficiency
- Focusing on customer value
- Using continuous improvement to strengthen a business
- Creating a culture of improvement
Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, small-business owners, supervisors, team leaders, students studying business, and organizations interested in practical process improvement.
