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Industry accreditations and certifications help guide this journey to higher performance. They provide structure, expectations, and practical activities that support.

Accelerate the speed and improve the quality a product or process by eliminating wait times, queue times, and other delays. Significant process improvement can be achieved with the application of 1. Flow one unit at a time (or minimum batch size), at a formulated and balanced rate; 2. Kanbans, and 3. visual controls to pull products or information.

System-wide thinking approach and templates will identify big changes that improve work processes and outcomes for all. It's a Win-Win! This will help you identify where problems occur AND where they begin. Note, system-wide thinking will have you focusing beyond your areas of control. It will involve your customers, partners, and suppliers.

Goal: To gain foundational improvement cycle understanding.

A culture of improvement is an organizational way of working where everyone is engaged every day in improving how value is created. It creates long-term, sustained results for all stakeholders, remains strong through leadership changes, and aligns the organization's DNA -

Processes with lots of variation and poor performance need standard work instructions. Creating the standards sets expectations and creates a calm consistency. In these working sessions you will learn how to create and document standard procedures to gain some immediate productivity. Teams have gained up to 20% productivity/capacity!

Kaizen improvement projects are fast-paced, team-building, energizing, fun, and create big improvements that teams own and sustain.

As the year progresses, the challenge becomes keeping improvement and change efforts moving forward to achieve desired results.