Lean Thinking in Small Business
Anything that is not adding value to your product or service is waste. This may be wasted materials, energy or human effort and rework. Preventing this waste directly improves your bottom line. In our present world preventing waste is also what we need to do to reduce the impact of climate change.
This philosophy of taking small steps to prevent waste has been described in the 5 stages in Lean Thinking (or Kaizen as the Japanese call it).
When you build simple and effective management systems and involve all your staff, you will find thatyou are actually building a Lean System.
You will be managing all types of waste including your time and effort and Enviro Action helps you to do it using small steps that make a big difference.
- Understanding true customer value
- Identify and map the value stream
- Make the product/process flow
- Allow the customer to “pull” the product
- Sustain and refine
These stages are a natural outcome of implementing Enviro Action’s management system training. We help you to implement this sustainable philosophy and leave out the jargon to keep it simple.
Lean thinking was developed in post war Japan and uses the small steps and quality management principles developed there by a man call Denning.