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Talking Lean E-News:
Sustaining Lean- Top Strategies from Lean Leaders to create Dynamic Development Programs   

Lean Reflections 

 

The thoughts and ideas that emerged from the participants of our Lean Executive Day were so valuable we have consolidated the notes in a 5 Part Series for the benefit of our online community.

 

Q. What is the most effective method for successfully ensuring all staff have the knowledge and comfort level to understand, support and get involved in Lean transformation on an ongoing basis?

  

1- Decide how to measure the success of the development program: 

 

This is important, as eventually the question will be raised about the expense versus the benefit  

 

  • Many companies adopt a four level assessment of their lean education and training:
    1. Smile sheets - surveys of classroom training from the participants   
    2. Exams and tests, to assess what was taken away versus the learning design, and to gauge teaching effectiveness as time goes on   
    3. Transfer to workplace - making sure the knowledge is actually being used in real life - assessed through brief project reports, report-outs, and formal visits 
    4. Education return on investment - assessed through collecting and summarizing improvement activities throughout the organization and their bottom line impact.
2- The most effective lean learning method tends to be a mix of theory, punctuated by examples, and then real life practice with coaching from an expert...Read More

   

 

 

VIDEO- Lean in the News

    

Lean Advisors has been a strategic partner with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health on their Lean Journey.    

  

Lean hospital innovation saves time and money

 

Premiers looking for money- and time-saving innovations for their health-care systems are turning to Saskatchewan Health's model of finding efficiencies in unlikely places.

 

Toyota, the Japanese auto giant, pioneered the concept of lean management in manufacturing, where employees look for efficiencies both big and small that don't compromise the product but save the company time and money.

 

In Regina, hospitals are applying the idea to everything from stocking medicines to hospital design, CBC's Cameron MacIntosh reports. Watch Video

 

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