Lean Solutions
Strategic Deployment Planning
Lean is more—much more—than a sequence of kaizen events.
To create and sustain the lean enterprise, there must be an integrated and focused plan with lean underpinnings and goals in key areas such as growth, quality, and organization development.
When company executives have directly participated in lean centric planning, they will more likely have a personal commitment and buy-in going forward.
Strategic deployment planning takes the output of a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats) assessment, and, working with the executive leadership, creates goals to address the findings and creates a plan detailing the initiatives required to accomplish the goals.
For small and medium companies the strategic deployment plan (SDP) is at the company level. For large companies the SDP is for the business unit level.
In addition, Jean Cunningham Consulting also provides SDP quarterly review and “refresh” facilitation.
To create and sustain the lean enterprise, there must be an integrated and focused plan with lean underpinnings and goals in key areas such as growth, quality, and organization development.
When company executives have directly participated in lean centric planning, they will more likely have a personal commitment and buy-in going forward.
Strategic deployment planning takes the output of a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats) assessment, and, working with the executive leadership, creates goals to address the findings and creates a plan detailing the initiatives required to accomplish the goals.
For small and medium companies the strategic deployment plan (SDP) is at the company level. For large companies the SDP is for the business unit level.
In addition, Jean Cunningham Consulting also provides SDP quarterly review and “refresh” facilitation.
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"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." — Sun Tzu
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What differentiates SDP from a traditional planning process?
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There are many examples of companies implementing lean manufacturing
without utilizing a corporate level lean enterprise strategy. While
there are still large initial gains realized in these instances, the
full realization of using lean principles to optimize the company
manufacturing and business processes as well as the reshaping the work
environment is never attained. Continuous waste reduction does not occur,
and, too often, with a couple of key staff changes, lean efforts fall by
the way side.
A lean business strategy provides a defined structure for using lean principles to plan and make decisions moving forward.
Jean Cunningham Consulting can partner with your executive staff to form a corporate lean strategy. We can work with your management team to devise a strategic deployment plan. Or, we can do a lean walk-about to help you assess your existing lean environment to be used as a starting point for expanding lean principles within targeted areas or throughout your company.
A lean business strategy provides a defined structure for using lean principles to plan and make decisions moving forward.
Jean Cunningham Consulting can partner with your executive staff to form a corporate lean strategy. We can work with your management team to devise a strategic deployment plan. Or, we can do a lean walk-about to help you assess your existing lean environment to be used as a starting point for expanding lean principles within targeted areas or throughout your company.
JCC's consultants have lived "lean" in the executive suite and have years of experience leading lean events and providing lean coaching to executives and functional team members. Our ability to listen, comprehend, quickly analyze, and think "out of the box" has consistently enabled us to provide successful client outcomes.
Contact Jean Cunningham Consulting and ask about a live webinar to explain SDP to your leadership team.
