Lean Senior Management Briefing
This 1 day session provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts of Lean Management for Senior Executives and Boards to enable them to Lead and Support a Lean business transformation.
Our presenters include the world renowned Lean thinkers, authors, educators, researchers, implementers Professor Peter Hines, Chris Butterworth and Gary Griffiths, as well as experienced leading local and international educators and consultants.
This briefing allows leaders to consider the steps needed to build a lean roadmap, to understand the training and change requirements of a lean transformation, and to see how to avoid the traps of creating illusory savings, and learn why a systems view of the enterprise is critical to dramatically improve productivity and create capacity to increase an organisations output.
Leaders will learn why lean is a change in approach, and how costs are reduced by focussing on people not cost cutting.
Topics include:
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Lean principles and putting them into practice
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What is waste and how to identify it
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The Lean Enterprise Model
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Understanding customer value
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Key elements of a lean organisation
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Strategy alignment and deployment
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Lean maturity assessment
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Value stream management
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The role of tools and techniques
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The extended enterprise
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Employee engagement
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The lean iceberg model
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Case studies of sustainable change
Read the latest articles in In Business Magazine on Leaning the Way for SA and learn how Futuris Automotive used Lean Thinking to adapt to the Global Financial Crisis in Lean Opportunity for Futuris.
Download from SA Partners a white paper by Professor Peter Hines
Creating a Lean Business System
http://www.sapartners.com/images/pdfs/creating%20a%20lean%20business%20system.pdf
UniSA Contacts for Lean Certificate Training
Sandra Walker +61 8 8302 0801
Sandra.Walker@unisa.edu.au
Peter Crossman +61 8 8302 0633 Peter.Crossman@unissa.edu.au