For thirteen years, Lean Value Solutions International has engaged its clients through results-based assignments that are all focused on creating sustainable value. We excel at assisting clients in establishing Lean infrastructure programs as well as tactical on-demand assignments. Over the years, We have seen organizations and Lean consultancies focus myopically on applying Lean tools just to manufacturing processes and completely abandon significant opportunities and benefits throughout their enterprises. Over the past two decades, companies using Lean have achieved short-term improvements - but most struggle to translate their improvements across the organization and to long-term competitive advantage.

The Lean Enterprise Platform provides a comprehensive framework that supports organizations on their Lean journeys regardless of their Lean maturity or stage or as to their size. We have developed the Lean Enterprise Platform as a comprehensive framework and enabler to address the culture, process and execution aspects of implementing and executing a Lean Enterprise strategy. The platform provides support across core internal and external business and operational processes. LVSI has developed a broad-range of services within the Lean Enterprise Platform that span strategy design, deployment and its execution, all with the focus on rapid value creation and sustainability.

Lean Leadership

There is no substitute for leadership; the responsibility cannot be arbitrarily delegated to staff members.  Leadership must be driven from the top throughout the organization with consistency.  In today's global economic climate and a rapid flattening of the global markets is presenting many companies with unprecedented challenges.  The challenges are both broad and deep and are rapidly eroding their ability to cope and overcome the challenges ahead.

Today's crisis driven environment is actually ideal and is necessary, taking decisive action today will ensure that an organization is putting itself in the best possible position to succeed.  A core team of people responsible for strategic, procedural, administrative and operations will emerge to lead the organization through a shifting global battlefield. This team will be the nucleus of change and transforming the core business processes which will put the organization in a more competitive posture relative to its market peers.

Lean Value Solutions will provide the expertise and framework to facilitate the successful transition from today's organizational realities to a path to a new more competitive reality which is based on proven framework of management principles, culture, methodologies and tools. Realizing that change is very difficult and teams must continue to support their organizations in the current reality while establishing the next is daunting.  Lean Value Solutions will provide dedicated experts to each core team member to assist and facilitate the challenges and tasks ahead.  The experts will assist and provide core team members the frameworks, discipline, assessment diligence, education and other support necessary to lead their teams to the Lean Enterprise.

Lean Value Solution understands that Lean is an integrated management system and that transformations are built on a series of deliberate and progressive set of focused activities that aligns strategic business imperatives with Lean strategy and its deployment.  The core focus of Lean Leadership is to develop the right strategy which focuses on deploying results-oriented business processes which are deployed with discipline and predictability.  Lean Value Solution understands that the ability of an organization to fundamentally position itself for leadership in today's turbulent environment.

Strategy Development

Universally, executives are beginning to understand the limitations of simply deploying Lean tools will not build sustainable competitive advantage. Successfully deploying Lean for the long-haul means integrating Lean's culture, management principles and tools with an organization's existing management culture, systems, internal and external processes.

Lean Value Solutions brings its clients the benefits of the expertise of hundreds of Lean deployments and the experts who have had the responsibility and accountability of developing corporate visions and their strategies as well as system of execution that support them. Our experts - your coaches - understand the need to develop an intelligent strategy that both balances out vision of operational excellence with an organizations capability to execute.  Our clients benefit from our experience that enable the implementation of Lean-driven processes by overcoming the many challenges facing their organizations; experience, politics, scalability, personal biases and the list goes on.  It sounds straight forward to develop a Lean Enterprise roadmap that is aggressive but achievable; however, this is no trivial task given that its outcome could lead to success or demise of a company's long-term future.

Our ability to quickly and accurately assess relevant market drivers, competitive threats, global and regional economic conditions, geopolitical influences and understand an organizations own capabilities is at the core to developing the solid vision and the right strategy blueprint that can be successfully executed and measured.  It is critical to "get strategy right"; its outcome sets the path to sustainable competitive advantage or not.  This it is why it is critical to not let leadership go ignored. Lean cannot be left to staff members and assume that it will just happen.  Many organizations who have just scratched the surface are finding out that without true executive leadership and commitment to the Lean journey are falling far short of their objectives. Our clients benefit from our experts who have experienced success and who have experienced mistakes.  This experience helps our clients avoid the obstacles and barriers to success.

Strategy Deployment

The current faulting performance of Blue Chip companies and industry leaders across all industries is proof that global economy is teetering on the brink of imminent change. Fundamental changes are impacting and threatening the very foundations of business models that have thrived for decades. Progressive organizations that are committed to Lean at all levels will implement new implement new cultures, business and operational processes and execution systems that will redefine their business models.  While these models will be new to the organizations, they are not new and have been proven and refined over the better half of the 21^st century.  For these companies, it will not be business as usual but business as required.

A solid strategy without the capability to execute is just a solid intention.  Lean Value Solution will provide a wide-array of guidance and support to enhance your organization's own ability to execute strategy with discipline and predictability.  Sometimes this means providing expertise in strategy, process experts, kaizen promotion office infrastructure, on-demand project consultants and at times, providing enabling technology. Transitioning from a traditional culture to a problem solving culture that thinks outside the box requires solid resources and methodologies, Lean Value Solutions will provide the expertise and capabilities necessary to execute and translate to value as defined by your customers and shareholders.

The Lean deployment will focus on impacting the culture, processes, people and systems that impact the company's strategic imperatives.  With our guidance, our experts will your teams will deploy the change management plan developed in the Strategy Development stage of a Lean Enterprise.  Over the months and quarters, your company will advance the activities and interactions that add value and reduce or eliminate the ones that do not.  Throughout the Strategy Deployment stage, we will provide a targeted and integrated set of activities to empower cross functional teams and lead to changing the cultural mind-set of your organizations. These disciplines include organizational design, process improvement, communications, leadership development, reward and recognition systems, performance metrics and definitions, process and roles integration and a knowledge transfer plan just to name a few.

The Lean Enterprise Platform provides all members in the organization with tools and the knowledge transfer mechanisms that will facilitate the translating the principles of Lean into measurable actions throughout the extended enterprise.  The impacts will be noticed by your customers, your employees, your shareholders and your competitive peers.