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Southern California
“Consortium of
Lean Organizations”
Lean
CONSULTING ASSOCIATES, LLC
Experience from Toyota, the Inventors of Lean
Mission
• Improve your business—top line & bottom line
– “Our goal is not to learn from our mistakes, but to
learn from others’ mistakes.” ---Warren Buffet
– Take advantage of over 1,000 years of Toyota
experience.
• Learn how Lean is applied to your total business.
• Members choose support resources only when needed
and whoever provides the best value.
– Collaborate and share resources to cut costs of
learning and implementing by at least 50%.
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Membership Package
1. Initial Lean Business Diagnostic
2. Lean Facilitator
Foundation Training
3. Quarterly Executive Learning Exchange
4. Periodic Electronic
Communications
5. Annual Kaizen Competition
and Conference
6. Executive Director
& Administration
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Membership Package (Detail)
1. Initial Lean Business Diagnostic
• By Lean Consulting Associates (LCA) Executive
Consultant—all former Toyota managers
• “A3 Report”:
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Problem & Business Case
Current Condition identifying causes
Target Condition identifying solutions
Action Plan to implement
Metrics relevant to business case and proposed
targets
• Very actionable vision and information for your
implementation
• Valuable for your annual Hoshin Kanri
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Membership Package (Continued)
2. Lean Facilitator Foundation Training
• 5-day training and practice at member company
• Led by LCA senior or executive consultant
• Based on methods adapted for North America
from Toyota Motor Corporations Operations
Management Consulting Division
• Learn basics of how to support every level of
management in your company in management’s
transformation of your business system: a
Blueprint for Lean Journey toward Vision.
• One facilitator per plant included in basic fee
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Membership Package (Continued)
3. Quarterly Executive Learning Exchange
• Breakfast or lunch event
• Led by a former Toyota executive
• Hosting rotated among members who provide
food and beverages
• Tour to review problems, causes, and potential
solutions— group input and discussion
• Learning session by former Toyota executive
• Feedback, training and recommendations
relative to just completed tour and discussion
• Training relevant to next step of Consortium
members’ Lean transformation
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Membership Package (Continued)
4. Periodic Electronic Communications
• Website with calendar of events, success stories
and other valuable information for members
• Newsletter—sent via email to whomever you
designate within member plant(s).
• Idea and Best Practice Sharing
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Membership Package (Continued)
5. Annual Kaizen Competition and
Conference
• Team improvement project competition
• Presentations at conference: Challenge
• Judging by knowledgeable members and former
Toyota executives: Motivation & Learning
• Expert feedback for group motivation and learning
• Training sessions: Learning
• Challenges for next year: Challenge & Inspiration
• Executives of member companies are expected to
attend presentations and awards ceremony
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Membership Package (Continued)
6. Consortium Administration
Dr. Ron Bennett serves you as executive director:
• Ron is a proven educational leader who is
passionate about the success of his students
• Ron has turned schools around as principal
and school districts around as superintendent
• Ron will use his knowledge of teaching and
learning with our instructors to ensure that you
and your employees learn efficiently and
implement effectively what is learned in the
workplace
• Ron is a great communicator who will work
collaboratively to ensure that your companies’
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Optional Services—Training
1. “Train the Trainer” Certification
2. Lean Leadership for Top Management
• Role, Results & Means Management, “Gemba
Walks”, Problem Solving
3. Introduction to Lean with Simulation
4. Lean Tools and Methods
• 5S, Standardized Work & Motion Kaizen, Value
Stream Mapping, Pull & Kanban Systems, Visual
Management, TPM, SMED
5. Lean Supply Chain
6. Lean for Knowledge Work
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Optional Services—Training (Continued)
7. Human System for Lean Management—for
every level of leadership in your company
8. Continuous Improvement
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Continuous Improvement in hoshin kanri
Practical Problem Solving*
A3 Problem Solving Workshop*
Kaizen Event Workshop—Point Kaizen*
Kaizen Event Workshop—System Kaizen*
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Optional Services—Training (Continued)
9. Ongoing, In-house Coaching for employees
to ensure implementation of what was
learned in the training
10. Training of one of your “star pupils” to do “Inhouse” Coaching
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What two members have to say about us:
• Jim Hall, Director, Continuous Improvement, BAE Systems Products
Group (Mike Murney, Bob Bennett)
What distinguishes LCA is the focus on helping you achieve your
business goals by working at the “Gemba” and learning by the hands-on
use of the lean tools. Every minute they spend at you facility adds value
that will continue to grow after they leave. It is obvious that their goal is to
make you self-sufficient, not to make you dependent on them to achieve
improvements…They have the experience and skills to work with any
leadership team to create and sustain a Lean culture.
• Pat Perrin, CEO and President, Perrin Manufacturing (Bob Bennett)
The implementation of JIT concepts allowed our company to ramp up a
major product line launch that tripled the size our business in two years.
This was accomplished during the same time that we reduced our floor
space by 20% and sold a warehouse to raise cash to fund our business
growth….We have used other productivity consultants before, but your
approach was different in a number of ways. First, after making an
inspection of the factory you were able to clearly articulate a vision of how
lean manufacturing principals would help us. Second, you provided
relevant visual aids to communicate the vision to management and
workers. Third, you followed through with us all the way to the shop floor
to make sure that we implemented a process to achieve the vision.
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If you are interested
in more information regarding the
“Consortium of Lean Organizations”Contact: Dr. Ron Bennett, Executive Director,
at (949) 291-7932 or rgbennett@cox.net to:
• Ask Questions
• Attend a Quarterly Executive Briefing with
Training,
• Attend a Monthly Site Visit with Training, or
• Talk with one of the Presidents or CEOs
whose companies belong to the Consortium
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