Unlocking Growth
While many view Lean simply as cost savings, we think of it as a roadmap to reveal and eliminate the most pressing barriers to growth. By working side-by-side with your team, we help unlock the ingenuity within your company. We position your products and services for even stronger growth.
Develop your Lean Leader arsenal
Learn to See, Learn to Target, Learn to Do, Learn to Teach
We engage with your teams to create a learning organization. We train 'to do' instead of 'training to train.' We build a cadre of skilled leaders and coaches enabled and committed to driving the work that needs to be done - with purpose, passion and empathy.
The LEAN Way: a business system & philosophy
Corporate leaders often focus on the 'tools and techniques' of their company. But what empowers these businesses are the management systems and human spirit that give them purpose. This is frequently ignored or missed, leading to unsustainable change and temporary gains with limited benefit to the total system.
We view the business and the people within it as a total system - from supplier partners to customers. We understand the power of uniting Purpose, Process and People – and the exponential growth that clients can achieve when the three are seamlessly integrated in a LEAN Leadership System.
Key steps in our approach
1) Confirm your top priorities
2) Be an extension of your leadership
3) Be non-biased and fact based
4) Go & See … Walk & Learn
- Deeply understand and question the current state
- See and learn more
5) Engage the team
- Cultivate a no-fear/no-hesitation environment
- Win commitment to targeted results
6) Draw a clear path to improvement
- Pilot->Measure->Improve->Scale
"LEAN Consulting Associates is one of the few with personal knowledge of "Lean"...coming from the company that revolutionized its industry -- Toyota. If you are looking for someone who truly knows how it's done end-to-end, then LEAN can deliver that knowledge."
- Floyd Parks,
Partner (retired)
PriceWaterhouseCooper
"What distinguishes LEAN Consulting Associates is their focus on helping you achieve your business goals … by working at the "Gemba" and learning the hands-on use of lean tools. Every minute they spend at your facility adds value that will continue to grow after they leave. It is obvious that their goal is to make you self-sufficient, not to make you dependent on them."
- Jim Hall
Director, Continuous Improvement BAE,
Systems Products Group
"The success we experienced is most attributable to the passion and talent that LEAN brought … their ability to work side-by-side with our people … as well as their approach … the utmost integrity and respect for all of our people."
- Joe Kazadi
former CEO Ateliers
Thome-Genot,
Nouzonville, France
"We have used other productivity consultants before, but your approach was different. First, after making an inspection of the factory you were able to clearly articulate a vision of how lean manufacturing principles would help us. Second, you provided relevant visual aids to communicate the vision to management and workers. Third, you followed through with us all the way to the shop floor to make sure that we implemented a process to achieve the vision."
- Pat Perrin,
CEO and President,
Perrin Manufacturing