Case Study - Lean Certification: Jump Starting a Lean Journey
Client
Several TBM clients from discrete and continuous process manufacturing companies who are looking for a way to develop internal expertise to drive their lean transformation.
Challenge
These companies realized that they had neither the internal expertise nor the time to design, train, implement, and sustain a lean program on their own. They needed in-house expertise to advocate for lean, drive culture change, and sustain the results of their lean transformation.
Solution
Create an internal consulting team by sending the best and brightest individuals through lean certification training. Use those human assets to facilitate lean efforts and drive change throughout the organization. Lean certification training includes a mix of intense classroom learning and hands-on field experience shadowing a TBM consultant in the field for two weeks. Each student is required to deliver an improvement project that realizes annualized savings of at least 3–5 times the cost of training.
Results
Certified lean practitioners effectively become the recognized go-to people for lean inside their respective companies. Graduates facilitate events, train others, jump start initiatives, and save the company money. Organizations get up to speed more quickly and realize accelerated benefits in exchange for the training investment. Lean certification helps companies gain the most benefit for their training dollars, drives and sustains change, and translates the results into real competitive advantage.
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