LEAN. Thrift that creates opportunities

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

2020 was the year of saving and thrift for many spheres and industries. However, it was the year of opportunities and financial growth for many of those too. In management, the concept that combines these ideas and presents a unique mixture is called LEAN methodology. In March this year, Lviv Business School invites you to a two-day practical course called “LEAN. Thrift that creates opportunities”. LEAN is a management approach towards improvement of business processes and increase in company’s income by detecting and eliminating the wastes. LEAN concept became highly popular owing to its ability to facilitate an effective optimization of business processes by ensuring a maximum focus on client interests and needs as well as employee motivation. Application of LEAN tools is effective for any industry. They can be applied in business, start-ups and even when maintaining a family budget. LEAN approaches help to use time, money and human resources more effectively.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Day 1

What is LEAN? Historical development of the methodology. LEAN philosophy and its fundamentals. Concept of LEAN thinking in business.
LEAN management: pros and cons as compared to the conventional management.
Understanding “values” and “wastes” in business. Searching and determining wastes in work processes. Analysis of the main types of wastes of LEAN according to the 8W model (The 8 Wastes of LEAN). Elimination tools and practical tasks.
What is the client paying for? Determining the core value of product, support and service for a client. Value stream. Plan of achieving a perfect stream in a company. Practical ways how to organize the stream movement.
LEAN — game: value stream.

Day 2

Main LEAN tools for the managers: 5S, Kanban, JIT (Just in Time), Spaghetti Diagram, Process Stream Mapping, etc.
Company’s processes improvement. Practice of a company’s specific process improvement.
Effective workplace creation technology. 5S tool and its practical application in business.
LEAN leadership. Owner/manager vs. team. LEAN team creation and effective cooperation.
Tools for development and involvement of employees into LEAN transformation.
LEAN transformations within a company. When and what for? Conditions for a successful implementation of LEAN within a company.

This course presupposes practical performance of exercises and tasks, study of business cases, educational business games and simulations for manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies.

VALUE

Upon the training you will:

get a profound understanding of LEAN management concept and key divergences between it and the traditional approach towards management;
analyze the main strategies of a successful business processes enhancement and, consequently, increase in income on the examples of the Ukrainian and foreign companies;
find out and learn in practice how to use main LEAN tools (5S, Kanban, JIT (Just in Time), Spaghetti Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, etc.);
learn how to determine value of a company’s product and service for the clients; find and distinguish between different types of wastes and ways how to minimize or eliminate them in an effective manner;
understand how to involve and develop a team as to avoid resistance to changes when the company undergoes LEAN transformation;
analyze key conditions, approaches and steps of applying LEAN transformation within a company.

All the participants will receive the Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University (LvBS) training completion certificate.

FOR WHOM

Owners and entrepreneurs of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, who want to understand how LEAN implementation can assist in overcoming a crisis and making a company economically stable; and to understand how to establish and optimize business processes by eliminating wastes and involving a team.
Directors, managers and top managers, who want and have the respective authority to enhance productivity, cut down on expense, enhance financial performance and involve employees into the processes of change implementation at both company and team levels.
Middle-rank and operational managers, optimization and quality department specialists, chief engineers at the manufacturing sites, who want to learn the fundamentals of LEAN methodology because their companies are undergoing LEAN transformation or are partially implementing LEAN tools into the work processes.