Aligning and Integrating Long-term Strategic Development

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LEAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is a complete program that aligns and integrates long-term strategic development planning and day-to-day improvement targets to make tour company customer-focused, flexible, and ready for tomorrow's challenges. Too often, manufacturing companies experience a huge gulf between top management's vision for the future and the day-to-day activities of everyone else.

Company leaders may be inspired and knowledgeable, but often they lack the means to inspire or empower people to respond effectively to customer needs and competitive threats.

The Lean Management System Program shows you how to support your company's transformation by linking strategic management to companywide activities that further the corporate vision.

MANY COMPANY LEADERS ARE DISCOVERING that the world is getting smaller these days. Low-cost overseas competitors are coming up with quality innovations in their markets and closing the delivery gap. The effective response to this learning, in every dimension

• Learning what the customers really value 
• Learning how worl class rivals and noncompetitors are producing and delivering that value
• Learning your company's position and what human and machine technology needs to be learned companywide to produce and deliver customer value better than anyone else
• Learning to measure the company's success and stay on the winning course, year after year

In the Corporate Diagnosis Program, we present a method for systematically measuring the success of such initiatives as part of a companywide improvement process.

Corporate Diagnosis is a powerful way to understand your company's capabilities and track its progress against benchmarks set by world leaders in lean management 

Corporate Diagnosis rounds out the financials with an assessment of how well the company is achieving its current objectives and its goals for future growth  and competitiveness.

THIS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS FOR PEOPLE who want to make their organizations more effective, while realizing their personal visions. It is for managers facing an array of problems which resist current ways of thinking , managers who want to know "How do I fix things?" You can't just "fix things," at least not permanently. You can apply theories, methods, and tool, increasing your own skills in the process. You can find and instill new guiding ideas. And you can experiment with redesigning your organization's infrastructure. If you proceed in all these ways, you can gradually evolve a new type of organization.

THE CORE OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS IS BASED ON FIVE LEARNING DISCIPLINES - Lifelong program of study and practice:

PERSONAL MASTERY - learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire, and creating an organizational environment which encourages all its members to develop themselves toward the goals and purposes they choose.

MENTAL MODELS - reflecting upon, continually clarifying, and improving our internal pictures of the world, and seeing how they shape our actions and decisions.

SHARED VISION - building a sense of commitment in a group, by developing shared images of the future we seek to create, and the principles and guiding practices by which we hope to get there.

TEAM LEARNING - transforming conversational and collective thinking skills, so that groups of people can reliably develop intelligence and ability greater than the sum of individual members' talents.

SYSTEMS THINKING - a way of thinking about, and a language for describing and understanding, the forces and interrelationships that shape the behavior of systems. This discipline helps us to see how to change systems more effectively, and to act more in tune with the larger processes of the natural and economic world.

At the heart of the Lean is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that organizations faithfully translate the voice of the customer into new products, and a business operating system that ensures reliable profit growth.

The true power of hoshin kanri, however, is two-fold - it is a superior organizational learning method as well as a competitive resource development system.

This program explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems, and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition

Total Quality Development is the modern way of developing new products that will be competitive in the global economy. It combines the best engineering, the best management, the best teamwork - far beyond traditional product development practices. The resulting improvements are greatly reduced development time, a reduction in all costs, higher quality, and increased product variety. Combined, these improvements greatly increase customer satisfaction.