Building Better Businesses

This workshop is designed to support a lean transformation team charged with designing a future state vision for your operations and developing a specific implementation plan for getting there. We offer this class in special versions for manufacturing, health care, office and transactional systems and service operations. This course’s contents go way beyond the approaches of well-known references such as Learning to See, giving a systematic and comprehensive approach mapping and operations restructuring for enhancing value delivery, eliminating waste, designing cells and lines, establishing effective work and information flow, designing appropriate production control and visual scheduling procedures, defining implementation plans and installing appropriate operational support systems.

The workshop is built around a realistic and comprehensive case study – supported by videos, models and hands-on-processes where participants map the current state, document waste and specific counter measures to eliminate it and define a comprehensive future state plan. This case study is based on real world facilities that we have mapped and restructured, and it is designed to illustrate the application of key value stream structuring principles and the effective future state design process that ILS has developed.

This workshop is usually scheduled over 5 days and includes an ILS facilitated exercise to map one of your existing value streams in real time. We can further tailor the workshop depending upon the specific content that your organization needs.

This course is designed for a team of individuals charged with developing transformation plans for the organization. It should include a broad mix of skills from a variety of functions in the company.