Still learning from Toyota? Still allowing organizational workforce copying what other have found? Still focusing on piecemeal change?
Lean / Agility is about flexibility and the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt and steer itself in a new direction. It’s about minimizing handovers and bureaucracy, and empowering people. Every organization has different ingredients (problems) and requires specific recipe (unique roadmap). Here is the aim is to build stronger, more rounded professionals out of all people within the organization. Being Lean is not just about changing the manufacturing processes or any other support function on its own. The key has been adhering to the “end-to-end principle” and working in multidisciplinary teams all focused on flowing the value added continuously and united by a common definition of success.
Without the commitment of the organization’s senior management and the establishment of an effective Lean project management platform, all aligned to common purpose, there can be no successful Lean transformation.
Transforming manufacturing facilities into competitive world-class platforms requires a holistic plan aligned with the organization’s overall goals. A transformation policy must be drawn up that deploys all the manufacturing resources into a common direction within a long-term strategic plan. A successful transformational change is predicated upon an organization's ability to understand the dimensions influencing change interventions and to better understand why some Lean interventions succeed while others do not. Senior executives must understand the relationship between organizational performance and change dimensions and their impact on the organization’s needs.
This program has twofold, first it assists in developing leader capability to see see where their organization could go and second, it aims to guide senior executives for better understanding of the lean philosophy, approach and application along with its supporting strategies essential to move organization workforce towards its vision. It enable senior executives to develop the best in their key people and to guide them effectively. Also, this program will help senior executives to see where their organizations can be? What is the level of organization readiness to move forward and what would take to engage them into one common purpose and voice towards its vision.
