Driving Business Improvement in Practice
The application of business improvement drivers in a working environment.
Course Overview
In today’s world of constant change, many companies commit themselves to business improvement programmes based on latest techniques yet fail to achieve the potential benefits and gains available to them.
Course Content
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The Oliver Wight Maturity map used by their leadership team to establish the direction of the business and its planned journey to excellence.
To filter and prioritise projects to a manageable action plan.
Lean Enterprise in detail and its supporting tools.
Six Sigma in detail, its supporting tools, and pre-requisites for success including DMAIC and Sigma calculation.
The techniques and approaches to gain flexibility and agility through the whole supply chain.
A variety of mapping techniques to clearly identify waste and non value adding activity and how they are used to devise new high performance processes. This vital activity will include a special simulation exercise.
How to measure the performance of processes and through measures how to control the success of projects.
The Oliver Wight Proven Path process for managing change and controlling projects to success.
The PDCA cycle and its use in driving projects for improving processes.
The impact of change management on people and how to get the best from them in mixed function problem solving and process team organisation.
The vital aspects of leadership on the journey towards excellence.
The course is highly interactive and covers these improvement techniques in some detail:
Describes the practical tools of problem solving available to companies and how they should be used
Provides a hands-on simulation focused on Value Stream Mapping
Gives an understanding of the business benefits from projects
Clearly defines the role of senior managers, line and project leaders and all of their people in securing the business gain.
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Objectives and Benefits
| Understand the vision of the company and interpret the business plan for their process and their improvement project.
Evaluate the ideas and proposals for improvement and select those most pertinent and most likely to give rapid and lasting business gains.
Understand the Lean enterprise in detail and how it is used to drive out waste to improve lead times and inventory positions and to step change productivity and output from business processes.
Understand Six Sigma in detail and how it is used to solve business process problems and issues to extend the time between process failures to levels for safe automation.
Understand the benefits of an Agile business in detail and how agility through its entire supply chain is achieved to promote business flexibility.
Use the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle with its accompanying tools and techniques to understand and improve processes.
Understand the tools that their people will use when engaged in improvement projects and particularly the techniques used in early stages of business maturity to get a team in the driving seat.
Use business process acceleration to implement rapid and lasting step change performance.
Establish, manage, and control large and small projects to a successful conclusion.
Get the best response and performance from their team by understanding the supreme value of people in the whole management of change.
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Who should attend
This very practical course is aimed at those key managers and project leaders on whom the company relies to implement change and to manage day to day events for the success of the business. Through this course they will be able to identify and select improvement proposals, establish projects, set out a clear resourced plans and drive them to quantified success.
Pre-Requisite
Nil
Recommended Follow-on Courses
Driving Business Improvement Expert Tools and Techniques (Former ALS Tools and Techniques)
This course is only offered privately. For information contact us.
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