Lean Strategies Improve Products and Services while Lowering Costs

Jonena Relth, President and Leadership Evangelist, TBD Consulting

If you believe Lean is just for manufacturing - please think again!      Non-manufacturing organizations are also improving their products and service delivery while lowering their overall costs of doing business.

I'm encouraged to see leaders from all types of organizaitons looking beyond the ways they have always done things in the past to implementing innovative solutions such as Lean to curb their costs to do business, poor quality customer service and/or products, employee shortages and employee dissatisfaction— all symptoms of deeper problems inherent in so many companies.

These forward-looking leaders have realized the financial and moral imperatives for improving quality and safety and eliminating waste as strategies for responding to their pressing challenges.

Lean (adapted from the Toyota Production System) is not just for manufacturing or another short-term fix: it’s a way to transform entire divisions into safe and high-quality, high-performing organizations. If implemented property, Lean can be the "how to" for managing change and creating continuous improvement.

Lean is used to eliminate obstacles that prevent organizations from providing best-in-class customer service and products by eliminating issues as vast as out-of-date technology systems, worker frustration and errors and oversights that can increase patient safety risks. Some "fixes" are complex, but lean methodology strives to find well-thought-out improvements that can be implemented quickly and without costing a fortune, if at all possible -- thus the name Lean.

As a leader, it makes sense to at least research whether your organization would embrace the methodology and sustained results derived from lean implementation.

Take a peek and give me a call if you'd like to see how lean strategies can help your organization improve your products and service delivery while lowering your costs.

Jonena

TBD Consulting has a 21-year, proven track record for ensuring employee performance improvement which translates to employee performance success. Whether you need help developing an in-house training organization, create a Lean Academy, or simply need "extra hands" to meet your deadlines or ROI goals, please contact Jonena. She and her qualified staff are here to assist you with your organizational development, coaching and training initiatives.

Corporate Office 602-263-1961.  Email Jonena today!