Expert Guide

In 20 years of implementing continuous improvement, what we have observed is that companies usually take one of two approaches. The first is to commit to a major engagement with a consulting company that will provide all of the resources to manage the program as well as to run the projects. This usually nets good results in the short term, but is rarely sustainable in the long term. Plus it's expensive!

The other approach is for the company to train their own people to be the improvement experts. We are convinced this is the right approach, and we have personally trained hundreds of experts to do just that. But just as any professional athlete still needs an experienced coach, continuous improvement experts need an expert guide as well.

We specialize in guiding Continuous Improvement experts: Champions; Project Sponsors; Lean Six Sigma Belts; Lean Masters; Kaizen Leaders; Value Stream Mapping Experts; Fault Tree Experts; Functional Managers.

Some of the coaching that we provide is illustrated below:

Experts

Coaching Opportunities

Champions
(Leaders of Continuous Improvement initiatives)

Project identification
Project valuation
Project Prioritization
Expert mentoring

Project Sponsors
(Own the project results)

Project identification
Project valuation
Project Prioritization
Team selection
Lean Six Sigma metrics

Lean Six Sigma Belts
(Master Black Belts; Black Belts; Green Belts; Others)

Project validation
Lean Six Sigma training and coaching
Project management
Team management
Improvement tool coaching

Lean Masters
(Toyota Production System experts)

Lean tool coaching
Project prioritization
Project management
Team management

Kaizen Leaders
(Leaders of focused improvment events)

Project selection
Kaizen event preparation
Kaizen event facilitation

Value Stream Mapping Experts
(Project identification experts)

Mapping techniques
Current state development
Ideal state development
Future state development

Fault Tree Experts
(Process variation elimination experts)

Root cause analysis
Variation elimination
Standard work
Standard operating procedures (SOP)

Functional Managers
(Responsible for day-to-day activities)

Project identification
Project valuation
Project prioritization
Lean Six Sigma metrics
Gate review
Sustaining project successes