The Lean Management System
From Improvement to Sustaining to Continual Improvement
A Lean thinking organization, is above all else, a learning organization. Each of the elements of the Lean Management System is designed in a very deliberate fashion to enable the learning organization to exist.
Over 3.5 hours of content is provided in short segments of approximately 15 minutes each to will serve as a guide to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of what the Lean Management System is and how the six elements interact with one another to support the creation of the Lean thinking organization.
Your Instructor
Lean Expertise
Author of “The Lean Management System”, Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member, and founder of The Murli Group-People Centered Lean.
Joe’s started his Lean journey 1989 in what Jim Womack called “the acid case” of the Lean transformations he described in his book “Lean Thinking”. Initially, in the onslaught of rapid fire improvement events there was excitement over how much could be improved in five day increments. Then as time went on and the lack of sustainability was obvious he searched for deeper understanding of how to capture the hearts and minds of people in pursuing the three simple questions of Lean.
Everybody, every day, everywhere asking:
How did we do yesterday?
Where was the waste?
How can we do it better today?
Ever since that time he has been dedicated to understanding the human factors of Lean and how they can lead to continuous improvement if properly managed and lead. He studied organizations that had highly engaged teams doing exactly this and distilled the basic elements that separated truly Lean thinking organizations from the rest. He was able to put these systems into play in the businesses he led at Pratt & Whitney, Kaman Aerospace, and Sterling Autobody.
As founder of The Murli Group he is dedicated in helping organizations of all kinds through every phase of the Lean transformation process especially as it deals with integrating technical and people systems into sustainable learning organizations.
“People Centered Lean is at the heart of everything we do”