Lean Enterprise Assessment

The process of achieving operational excellence is a rewarding journey for companies that want to dramatically impact their customer focus, increase profits and build a culture of continuous process improvement.

Periodic assessments provide a critical baseline as to an organization's current performance and opportunities for improvement. 

The assessment processes also serve to support the change management process, reinforce new habits, and maximize improvements in the shortest possible time while effectively minimizing risks. A sound assessment also evaluates an organization’s own capabilities and core competencies which are critical to developing a solid vision and blueprint and can be successfully executed and measured.  It is critical to “get the strategy right”; its outcome sets the path to sustainable competitive advantage or failure.

Jointly with our clients, we review progress; how fast they are implementing projects; how many internal experts they have developed; and the maturity-level of all aspects of the operations. Assessments provide constructive feedback and recommendations to keep the transformation process on track and indicate the affect the financial impact on the organization. Issues and risks are made visible early on minimizing problems later and maximizing the likelihood of success. Innovative development programs can be shaped so that they are 'in-tune' with the relevant lean deployment strategy of the business.

We will use indicators of success such as financial metrics, customer satisfaction and profitable growth to measure progress and guide future actions and adjustments in your transformation efforts. Our collective goal is to avoid the risk of failure that can be caused by misplaced priorities; wasted time and effort; waning motivation and organizational misalignment. We have refined our approach over the years is to mitigate these risks and ensure that success is built upon a solid certification process.

An operational excellence certification process is a phased approach that is designed to be in concert with an organizations goals and organizational competencies. The process is measurable, certifiable and auditable and is designed to lay foundational and sustainable competency before moving to the next phase. Key aspects of certification are specifically designed to support our client’s goals and objectives and are based on the results of the initial assessment.