Welcome to the Lean and Deming learning program! Learners will discover the foundations, philosophy, definition, purpose, practices, tools, and benefits of Lean practice informed by the science of improvement as described by W. Edwards Deming and others. The focus is on effective, sustainable, continual, and incremental improvements of a system, not just the parts and learning from example of the Toyota Production System and other Lean systems. In this program, you will learn that Lean begins with thinking differently about work, about systems, to always consider innovation and creation of customer value over cost cutting, quality improvement as a way of life, and a never ending journey toward a sustainable, fear-free environment that treasures and respects people and values effectiveness, efficiency and equity!
This 16 week program is enabled by eLearning lessons and exercises on the DemingNEXT platform, integrated with on-the job practices every week in your workplace and weekly webinars. A unique feature of our Lean and Deming program is that participants bring real problems from their work in service or manufacturing to use what they learn each week to improve a problem using new capabilities acquired with Lean and Deming principles, processes, methods, and tools.
For weeks 11-15, participants will choose one or more workplaces to practice key Lean and Deming. These are the five 4-hour events that can each take place in person with all cohort members at one location:
Lean Assessment – Preparation and Assessing an Organization’s Site
Lean Assessment – Feedback to Organization’s Site
Rapid Improvement (Kaizen) Blitz – Planning and Execution
Value Stream Mapping – Planning and Execution
Value Stream Mapping Follow Up and Prioritization
Included in these 5 events, participants will be able to prepare and facilitate each event and use some of the fundamental methods of improvement such as brainstorming, affinity, digraphing, prioritization matrices, action item logs, follow up cycles, operational definitions, and recommendations along with templates for each.
Each of these events has a value of more than $10,000, if you paid an outside consultant to conduct this type of event. Beyond the $50,000 actual cost savings, by learning how to do these events in your own organization, the potential added value is immeasurable.
Participant resources are hosted securely on DemingNEXT, and webinars are facilitated virtually on Microsoft Teams!
