Workout!

“Workout” is a workshop designed to take waste out of any business process. Typically it’s a 2-3 day event with a ½ day follow-up event about 4 weeks later.

It’s a 7-Step Process:

Step 1: Set the Stage for Success (Management Commitment)

Step 2: What’s Wrong? (Issue/Problem Identification and Quantification)

Step 3: What’s Important? (Prioritization vs. Established Criteria)

Step 4: What Can We Do? (Ideation/Brainstorming to Create Ideas for Removing NVA Work)

Step 5: How Do We Get On With It? (Moving to Action, Planning for Change)

Step 6: Making It Happen (Making the Changes….Removing NVA Work)

Step 7: Follow-Up (Verify the Changes Have Been Make & Results Achieved)

The Goal is to reduce the amount of non-value added work in the process, reduce the labor required, and reduce the cost of doing business the “old way”.

Examples of Workout Projects:

1. Reports no longer needed

2. Elimination of unnecessary approvals

3. Bureaucratic meetings no longer held

4. Work speeded-up to reduce lead time

5. Customer feedback improved

6. Streamlined forecasting process

7. Revamped record retention

8. Elimination of time clocks

9. Empowered service technicians who can now reimburse customers directly

10. Reduced ordering process and invoicing process by 50%

Workout Structure:

a) A committed manager

b) A project to work on…one with process waste

c) A small group of people with subject-matter expertise on this process

d) A trained facilitator

e) Time set aside to perform this Workout process

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team is anxious to help you with Workout!

Contact us for help:

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can design and conduct a this workshop to meet your specific needs.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.

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