1. Lean Overview Lean Methodology Lean Toolkit Lean Deployment
Lean Glossary
Lean Resources
Advanced Lean

2. Don’t Wait!! – “Opportunities multiply as they are seized”
Lean Deployment
Lean Deployment Roadmap
Set the strategy
Find a change agent (how about you?)
Get the knowledge
Seize or create a crisis to motivate change
Map your value streams, creating a future state plan
Eliminate waste by executing the plan
Expand the scope to other areas
Don’t Wait!! – “Opportunities multiply as they are seized”
Advanced Lean

3. “The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff”
Lean Deployment
Investment Required
“The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff”
Advanced Lean

4. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great!”
Lean Deployment
Key factors for Success
Leadership commitment
Ramp up with results
Consistency of purpose
Knowledge/Training
Wide spread Communication
Change management
Team responsibility
Metrics
Reward and recognition
Roadmap for Execution (Discipline)
Balance between short term and long term
Best practice sharing (Community)
Value Stream Management
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great!”
Advanced Lean

5. Kaizen = Action Work Out (AWO) at GE
Lean Deployment
Kaizen: Change for the better
Continuous incremental improvement
Continuous  slow
Data driven: visual and quantitative
Bias for action
Does not cost money
Absolute intolerance for waste
Kaizen = Action Work Out (AWO) at GE
Advanced Lean

6. Lean Deployment Kaikaku Vision Kaizen = Evolutionary Change
Kaikaku = Revolutionary Change
Kaikaku
Kaizen
Improvement
Kaikaku
Kaizen
Kaikaku
Kaizen
Kaizen
Time
Need Both Kaizen and Kaikaku!!
Advanced Lean

7. Responsibilities clearly demarcated
Lean Deployment
Value
Value
Streams
Flow
Pull
Perfection
PROCESS Lean
(Elimination of Waste)
Senior Mgmt.
Front Lines
FLOW Lean
(Flow and Pull Improvement)
Focus
Process Lean
Lean for waste elimination & process efficiency
Empowered teams for speed of execution
Tap knowledge residing in grass root level .
Simple Communication
Flow Lean
Focuses establishing lean workflow
Use of Technology for flow
Wing to wing improvements
Establish Pull With customer involvement
Six Sigma for complex problems
Responsibilities clearly demarcated
Advanced Lean

8. Important to be wary of the above factors
Lean Deployment
Why some companies fail?
Too busy managing day-to-day – no time for continuous improvement and organizational learning
Belief that past strategies and approaches will continue to be effective in the future
Management through control and efficiency
Organizing and managing through departments
Using people as operational labor, not operational experts
Let Lean Thinking be perceived as a downsizing exercise
Important to be wary of the above factors
Advanced Lean

9. Applying the right tools at the right stage
Agenda
Lean Overview
Lean Methodology
Lean Toolkit
Lean Deployment
Lean Resources
Applying the right tools at the right stage
Advanced Lean

10. Lean Resources Lean Repository
For all references on Lean training material, Lean Initiatives, Genpact Project examples, visit the Lean Community on the Genpact Support Central
Lean Repository
Advanced Lean

11. Got any Lean Improvements…..
Lean Rewards & Recognitions
Got any Lean Improvements…..
Upload it onto the Lean Workflow
All approved Team & Individual ideas win Cheers
Advanced Lean

12. Many unidentified problem areas exists within your processes
Closing Words
Many unidentified problem areas exists within your processes
Lean methodology helps exposing those problem areas ~ Creating opportunity for improvement
Implementation is the key
Advanced Lean