"Having no problems is the biggest problem of all." — Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System
Our lean workshops and seminars provide entry-level to expert education for lean beyond manufacturing. Within an established,overarching framework, each is customized to a client’s needs that have been established prior to the event.
Most of our workshops have integrated simulations to demonstrate priority objectives.
As with lean manufacturing, there is no one right answer or step-by-step instruction manual to address lean accounting, lean IT, lean HR, or any other business process. But, our workshops provide the understanding and tools to create a culture of ongoing improvement and can be applied to any process within your company.
These seminars address the needs of companies at a variety of stages in the lean journey where the business functions have not been adapted to the lean environment. A given individual might select any combination of the seminars depending on their personal goals and the current environment in which they work.
Kaizen Breakthrough: Essential Elements for Business Process Events
Kaizen events are the cornerstone of lean transformation. In this presentation, learn the best methods for successful events beyondmanufacturing.
Selection of events, scope, and objectives
Event preparation
Facilitation and training guidance
Presentation content
Follow-up
This seminar is for executives, managers, and lean leaders who want to know the basics behind successful kaizen events.
Improve Cash Collections with "Lean"
What if you could improve cash flow by shortening your current cash collection process by weeks?
Gain understanding of your barriers to collecting cash quickly from your customers
Practice a kaizen event with a focus on cash collections process
Create a personal action plan for improving your collection of cash
Total Lean Accounting Series
The following three, one-day workshops/seminars can be taken standalone or combined into a three-day comprehensive event covering all aspects of the lean accounting field. Each is customized for your company's current lean environment.
1. Bridging the Gulf: Focus Accounting on the Lean Enterprise 2. Deep Dive: Lean Accounting as a Way of Life 3. Reality Measures: Measuring Impact of Lean Manufacturing
Bridging the Gulf: Focus Accounting on the Lean Enterprise
Hear why accounting must adapt to be relevant and add value in a lean company.
Participate in a manufacturing simulation demonstrating how the adoption of lean manufacturing dramatically impacts how financial performance needs to be reported and how standard cost accounting statements are no longer useful
See the huge gains the application of lean philosophies can have on accounting operations
Learn lean terminology that is required to bridge the gulf between manufacturing and accounting as well as other areas of the company
This workshop is for executives and managers who want to understand accounting’s high impact, far-reaching role in the Lean Enterprise.
Deep Dive: Lean Accounting as a Way of Life
Implement alternatives to standard cost accounting
Prepare for successful kaizen events in accounting
Develop overarching lean education program for
the finance and accounting function
Achieve support with auditors
This seminar is for financial professionals and related executives who understand lean concepts and are ready to implement lean accounting in their organization.
Reality Measures: Measuring Impact of Lean Manufacturing
Traditional measurements are very ineffective in a lean environment and make it impossible to truly present the gains realized by lean.
How to identify the true financial impact of lean.
How to measure bottom line results that all can understand and work from.
How to identify and replace anti-lean measures.
This seminar is for the entire leadership team that has adopted a lean business strategy and needs to be able to effectively and correctly measure results that will truly add value from the executive office all the way over to the manufacturing floor.
Lean Centric IS: Easier, Simpler, Faster
Information Systems are often/usually an overlooked area in the lean journey. There seems to be an unstated assumption that IS will just naturally effectively follow the lean direction. This false assumption causes untold waste through lack of timely and effective information everywhere in the enterprise. An overall coordination with ongoing lean efforts is needed.
Discover what is different in a lean company.
ERP/MRP/no
RP!
Scheduling
Kanban
Lean principles applied to the IT process (project management, hardware and software)
Roadmap
This seminar is for executives, IS/IT managers, and those driving internal lean efforts.
Lean Human Resources
This workshop provides the lean knowledge that will have high impact on the human resources function within lean companies. Learn how your company's lean manufacturing efforts will impact human resources and how HR should participate with the lean transformation in order to become a lean partner with focus on the customer and maximized HR value add. Hear about the gains to be realized when lean principles are applied to identify and eliminate waste in human resource processes.
Lean Simulation and impact to Human Resources
Goals and Strategies to apply Lean to HR
Examples of Improvements in HR using Lean Thinking
Lean road map
This seminar is for executives, HR managers and staff, and those driving internal lean efforts.
Know Where to Start: Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping, is a tool which focuses on the elimination of waste which is defined to be anything that adds cost or time without adding value. Waste in a manufacturing process is often quite visible, but in an office environment, waste is often hidden, making it difficult to detect and eliminate.
This workshop will introduce the four steps of VSM: Preparation, Current State Mapping, Future State Mapping and Planning for Implementation. It is offered as a 1/2 day presentation to learn the basic concepts or as a 2 1/2 day workshop when a specific process is undertaken to be mapped.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn VSM or undertake a VSM event.
Contact Jean Cunningham Consulting to discuss your lean journey and how we might contribute to meeting your goals.
Our lean workshops and seminars provide entry-level to expert education for lean beyond manufacturing. Within an established,overarching framework, each is customized to a client’s needs that have been established prior to the event.
