Principle lean/operational excellence consultant
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.