The Situation

Principle consultant in Lean for clients in UK, Italy, UAE and Australia. Defining scope and subsequent delivery of engagement.

Situations vary from training in a lean operating systems, poor on time delivery performance in the value chain, to clients requiring full value chain understating requiring  tactical pathways forward for improvement.

 

The Task

Developing plans and quotes with the client and consultancy owner

On site execution and adjustment of agreed plan in partnership with COO’s

Leading of client management team through discovery and analysis

Capturing the current situation utilising consulting team and client analysts’s.

Leading training events through practical simulations and building of sites value stream maps to reflect the current situation.

Agree the causes with the teams and to develop future state options to move forward.

The Action / Approach

Go look see the end to end process

Interview the management teams and front line teams in all areas

Build a view of the current state and situation in play

Direct the analysts on what data is required to collect and support any hypothesis

Run regular governance through A3 reporting and stakeholder engagement.

Continually validate findings and keep engagement high.

Facilitate workshops for alignment and future state development.

 

The Result

Training client: Up-skilled management team in lean operating model, current state value stream map and methodology to run an operating system, legacy demonstrated by the client of practising the system post events.

Marine client: OTD improvement in the value chain, alignment in understanding or performance between different Europe factories

Mining client: Mine & Iron Ore business enterprise current state map. Staff skilled in value stream mapping and lean operating system methodology, management team alignment to current situation, future state options options developed, 90 days plans. £100’s of Millions implemented through the process.

 

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