Why Take a Lean Assessment?

Applying Lean methodology to your business can help you to minimise waste, maximise your resources and drive your organisation forward. Incredibly beneficial to businesses of all sizes, and across all industries, Lean principles can help your company achieve its long-term goals.

Implementing Lean methodology is an ongoing process, and it’s important to keep track of your achievements, successes and misses along the way. You can do this by taking a Lean assessment. Designed to help you identify your starting point – or get a picture of how the process is going - the assessment can help you keep your Lean journey on track.

Establishes A Baseline

Whether you’ve yet to apply Lean principles to your organisation or have already started the process, a Lean assessment provides a snapshot of your organisation’s current state in terms of Lean adoption and maturity.

If you haven’t yet started to use Lean methodology, this assessment will help you establish a baseline for your organisational efficiency and indicate where changes are most needed. If you have begun your path to Lean implementation, it will help you identify the strengths and weaknesses in your current Lean practices.

Guides Continuous Improvement

The application of Lean principles to a business is an ongoing process of continuous improvement. Taking the Lean assessment will help you to track your progress over time as you implement key principles and practices. This should make it easier to refine your strategy and identify additional opportunities for improvement.

Aligns Your Organisation

In order for Lean principles to make a real, positive difference across your organisation, everyone in the business needs to understand their importance and be on board with the implementation process. Conducting a Lean assessment can help to create a common understanding of Lean methodology across the board. This can make it easier to align leadership and employees to your strategic objectives and make their implementation a priority for everyone.

Drives Accountability

When applying Lean principles to a business, it’s helpful to have a baseline to compare your progress to as the process goes on. If goals aren’t met or targets are missed, this baseline provides an element of accountability and can help show you where things may be going wrong.

The Lean assessment process provides you with objective metrics designed to measure Lean adoption and results. You can use these metrics to hold leaders and teams accountable for Lean implementation. You can also use it to demonstrate ROI on Lean processes and show the value of your targeted initiatives. Currently, Qualitrain’s customers are showing an average saving of £142,000 per improvement project/initiative. However, the greatest benefit is the capability that has been built by the people, who can go again and again, continuously eliminating waste and delivering value to your customers.

Informs Strategy

Lean assessment results can guide resource allocation, ensuring efforts are directed where they will have the most impact. By using these insights, businesses can develop bespoke strategies to overcome obstacles and drive results.

Next Steps

A Lean assessment is an invaluable tool for any organisation looking to apply these practical principles and unlock their full potential. Ready to get started? Get in touch today to schedule your Lean assessment or explore the Lean apprenticeship courses we offer.

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