Lean Enterprise: Building the Culture & Corporate Philosophy

Lean Enterprise: Building the Culture & Corporate Philosophy

This one day session will include a brainstorming time to define your corporate philosophy, make sure it melds with Lean and develop principles on how to build your people strategy and customer goals around your philosophy.
• Corporate Philosophy
• Becoming a Catalyst for Change
• The Learning Organization
• The Importance of asking questions like “why”
• Partners & Suppliers
• Making Decisions by Consensus
• The Lean Mindset
• Developing your Team

Lean Enterprise: Building the Culture & Corporate Philosophy

This important session will bring all the start up team together to develop a Philosophy either building on what you already have in place or using the role model of Toyota. Start with the culture today, learn from its’ roots, then draft your plans for where you want to be – the future state vision. Develop learning goals both for your team and company wide. Make a pact to support the system and get others on board. Determine the importance of asking “why” as you probe deeper for a better understanding or what is currently in place, how the work flows, and how you would like it to be. Set targets of percentages of waste to eliminate, money to be saved, and/or process to be eliminated. Discuss the steps needed to build consensus and develop the Lean Mindset within the company by being role models.

Class targeted to: Team members, management, anyone involved in the Lean initiative. The concepts of Lean can be used within any organization, not just manufacturing.

Prerequisites: Completing the Lean Enterprise Overview one day course would be very helpful.

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