Lean Simplicity

Why Lean Simplicity?

Lean isn't just for Manufacturing anymore. Lean Simplicity is what you need to get your business or organization to be more competitive and serve your customers better. The five goals of lean simplicity are:

Simple is Best
Improve Quality
Eliminate Waste
Reduce Time
Reduce Total Costs

In the most basic sense Lean is a practice that focuses your business, organization or service on providing the most value that your customer or client will pay for with the least wasted actions to do so. Put more succinctly and perfectly is this quote:

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

- Simple is Best: Business Owners must deal with complex systems with many independent and inter-dependent variables.

In order to react appropriately and perform effectively you need to give your people and processes the information they need in a way that allows for maximum impact. Lean Simplicity creates an environment where you can see your current efficiency vs. your ideal efficiency. Lean Simplicity lets you see 'the whole' from 'the parts' and 'the parts' from 'the whole', it creates clarity.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. - Charles Mingus

- Improve Quality: Lean integrates quality at the source, putting controls in place at each step in the process. Before Lean manufacturing was optimized for product throughput. At the end of the process tests were conducted and defects were fixes at rework stations. Make more profits by building quality in.

- Eliminate Waste: Lean is observation, listening, and analysis to identify all activities in the manufacture or creation process and the value they add to the final product or service. The processes are continually re-evaluated to drive towards the most efficient(simple) means to create value in products or services. Waste is any activity that consumes time, resources or space but does not add any value to the product or service.

- Reduce Time: Reducing the time it takes to finish an activity from 'start to finish' is one of the most effective ways to lower costs and eliminate waste. Lean Simplicity focuses your business, organization and group to build to demand. Pulling from actual demand reduces reliance and investment in forecasting models. Driving from actual demand is more reliable in volatile environments or economic uncertainty.

- Reduce Total Costs: To minimize cost, a business or organization must produce only to customer/client demand. Lean Simplicity means moving towards just enough inventory. Inventory is minimized because it costs money, consumes resources to manage it and becomes obsolete, damaged or lost over time.

Duration

By The Day - A Lean Assessment is the perfect way to get ready.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford

By The Week - Plan your Lean Project, Conduct a 5 day Kaizen, and Set things in motion for the future.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford

Long-term Coaching - A cornerstone of real continuous improvement is empowering workers, creating a learning organization and making change both welcome and solid. Provided by a long-term engagement.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well - that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about. - Bruce Hamilton

Lean Simplicity focuses on increasing the value (true & perceived) between product manufacturer and customer, by continually eliminating the waste in the processes. This is accomplished by following these principles: