Building Better Businesses

• Describe the principles, techniques, tools and practices associated with lean
• Plan and execute a series of improvement projects in the workplace
• Gain the trust and engagement of team members in the workplace

• See the value and the waste in your processes and systematically enhance the value while eliminating waste, increasing your capacity and profitability
• Create work flow to improve delivery to your customers while ensuring perfect quality
• Teach and coach lean principles, techniques, tools and practices to your co-workers
• Solve problems and drive improvements in your work processes

• Apply basic team building approaches to develop more effective solutions to workplace challenges
• Set boundaries and create repeatable processes through standardized work
• Describe basic leadership principles complementing a lean transformation

We’ve developed three delivery options for these courses. The most effective tends to be option 3, which we recommend.

Option 1: Public Delivery

Send your people to our public workshops in Kentucky. The price is $7,500 per person, but with a larger group we discount that price by as much as 50%. This option allows your people to interact with participants from other companies, making valuable network connections for future idea sharing and learning.

Option 2: Conventional On-site Delivery

We will come to you to deliver the courses as designed. You provide the learning environment (including room, audio visual equipment, office supplies, reproduction of handout materials, meals and refreshments) and send up to 28 people at a time through the course series. The meeting room must be at least 10 meters wide by 12 meters deep (or 30′ x 36’€™). The price for the series is $75,000 plus expenses (instructor travel, copies of handouts, onsite meals and refreshments, other supplies as needed). We will schedule these courses at your convenience (within our own scheduling constraints). With this option, we encourage you to coordinate the student projects to focus on a particular value stream, so that the combined effect of many smaller projects will have a significant impact for the company.

Option 3: Lean Systems Certification Boot Camp

In this series, we focus on actual transformation and make the projects the vehicle for learning. We will come and make an assessment of your facility, identifying with you the key value stream and several projects substantial enough to achieve our learning and cost savings objectives. You provide the learning environment again (including room, audio visual equipment, office supplies, reproduction of handout materials, meals and refreshments.) Everyone also must have access to the gemba (the workplace where we will complete the transformation projects).

During each week, the class (again, up to 28 people) will complete a series of cost-saving projects that save you at least twice as much as the boot camp costs, Guaranteed. We will also invoice in a way that ensures the savings hit the books before the bill does, making this partnership a great investment for you, even in these troubled times. The price for this series is $120,000 plus expenses. We’€™re averaging 12:1 returns with current dedicated clients in the Strategic Transformation Partnership. The boot camp often requires additional instructors/facilitators.

• Assessment and Value Stream Mapping and Analysis workshop

• Lean Systems Certification Boot Camp Week 2 – Processes
  Rapid Improvement/LIFT activity facilitated by ILS targeting the restructuring of key operations and processes identified during the previous workshop

• Lean Systems Certification Boot Camp Week 3 – Kaizen
  Rapid Improvement/LIFT activities facilitated by ILS targeting detail work improvement and problem solving for processes featured in Week 2 activities

• For option 1 – Public Delivery, to secure seats in the public workshops, we require registration and a nonrefundable advance deposit of $500 per person. We can break out the billing so that you receive an invoice for each week, spread out just like the workshops, rather than one lump sum for all three courses.
• For option 2 – Conventional Onsite Delivery, no deposit is required, but we will send you a contract that outlines our mutual obligations. You may choose to pay lump sum in advance, or we can invoice by week, and if necessary issue multiple invoices for each session spread out between weekly budget cycles.
• For option 3 – Boot camp, we will work together to define the billing sequence, so that it fits into your budget cycles and presents you with a clear, cost-neutral option (the savings will hit the books as the invoices come due). This option does require that we partner more closely to verify actual savings. It also requires commitment from management to enforce the standards we will coach your participants to put in place.