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ISN’T ALWAYS CLEAR
We have proven methodologies to help you find the right solution
METHODOLOGY IS AT
THE HEART OF
EVERYTHING WE DO
No matter what problems you
are looking to solve, we have a
variety of solutions that can be
tailored to your business needs.
INNOVATION
Through a research-based,
systematic, and highly
collaborative approach to
innovation, today’s business
leaders have confidence that their
company will rise to the occasion.
Our structured innovation methodologies are designed to drive innovation
as a process, not merely an aspiration. Structured innovation is often
viewed as anathema or even an oxymoron. However, mature companies
wishing to become more innovative quickly learn that they are not Google
or Amazon. Instead, they need to adopt highly collaborative, structured
methodologies and adapt them to their culture and the nature of their
business. Turning innovation into a process is the aim of our
innovation practice.
TURNING INNOVATION INTO A PROCESS
Faster Results
We use proven, research-based
methods to have your team
innovating in a matter of weeks
and months, rather than years.
Effective Tools
We provide tools that allow everyone
to engage in the process of
innovation.
Clear Path Forward
We break down the key steps to
innovation to allow you to manage
innovation as disciplined projects with
clear roadmaps, milestones, and
decision criteria.
LEAN
A methodical approach to
eliminating waste in an organization
by promoting a culture that
relentlessly pursues solutions to
problems.
Our consultants, coaches, and trainers work with organizations to
implement the principles of Lean and the accompanying tools necessary to
realize the vision of a truly lean enterprise.
Lean is the westernized incarnation of the Toyota Production System.
Originally focused on manufacturers, today Lean can be found everywhere
including in hospitals, banks, hotels, restaurants, and even government.
RELENTLESSLY PURSUING SOLUTIONS
Transformation
Complete organization-wide
transformation to one that eschews
waste and relentlessly pursues the
solution to every problem by
empowering the workforce to own
its own destiny.
Focused Solutions
Our experts lead focused projects
for clients when specific problems
are to be solved.
Facilitation
More often, we facilitate the
transformation of an organization
through a combination of education,
coaching, and on-the-job training.
DATA ANALYTICS
How to get value out of data has
always been the challenge.
In the modern era of big data, the value gap turns out to be in the
past, with executives and managers who have never been trained
to take advantage of their new data assets (both people and technology).
Leveraging our vast capability in data analysis, strategy, and
innovation, the focus of our data expert’s practice is bridging the gap
between analysis and value.
BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure Assessment
Evaluate large quantities of highly
relevant data and provide the
infrastructure to utilize that data
through collection, storage, and analysis.
Develop Skills
Executives and managers must
develop the capability to manage
these assets and apply this new
capability to everyday problem-
solving innovation and strategy.
Bridge The Data Gap
Bridging the gap between data
analysts and managers is the focus of
our practice.
LEAN SIX SIGMA
Lean Six Sigma is a time-tested
approach to process optimization.
Its central focus is the elimination of
process variation through the
methodical application of data-
driven tools.
cultural transformation in the direction of structured problem solving and
data-driven decision-making.
At Lean Methods, we put the “Lean” into our Six Sigma practice by ensuring
projects are fast and focused. Our Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts often
lead project teams for our clients. However, our preference is to educate
and coach our clients, so they can insource the capability to eventually run
projects without us.
LEAN INTO LEAN SIX SIGMA
Leading the Way
The origins of Lean Method lie in
large-scale implementations of
Six Sigma dating back to 1999,
and we’ve been a market leader
ever since.
Evolving Practices
Always learning ourselves, today we
apply best practices that have been
developed while working with
hundreds of companies.
Result-Driven
Faster projects using more
innovative methods and ensuring
the sustainability of results is the
emphasis behind our Lean Six
Sigma practice.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Hoshin Planning, often referred to as
Strategic Planning or Policy
Deployment, is a highly structured
and Lean methodology used to
accelerate and bring rigor to strategy
execution.
highly collaborative workshops that drive engagement, buy-in, and detailed
action planning followed by a disciplined and methodical approach to
accountability.
With roots closely tied to Lean Manufacturing, Hoshin Planning has grown
into a highly effective methodology applied to all industries, from banking and financial services to manufacturing and technology development.
ACCELERATE YOUR STRATEGY
Lean Approach
Hoshin Planning offers a very
methodical approach that is
manageable and can be
implemented with relative speed.
Engaging Success
The benefits of Hoshin Planning are
derived from its highly collaborative
foundation that ensures
engagement, agreement, and
accountability, which are all critical
to successful strategy execution.
Quick Results
While true mastery of Hoshin
Planning can take years because of
the need to see the process through
more than once, results can be seen
in as little as weeks.
STRATEGY
DEVELOPMENT
Our practice is dedicated to periodic
strategic renewal or, in some cases,
that once-in-a-generation creation of
an entirely new strategy.
It turns out that the challenge most companies face with strategy execution
has little to do with their ability to execute strategy. Instead, the problem most
often is the lack of a true strategy itself.
Creating strategy, however, is more complicated than ever. In today’s
increasingly complex world, competition can come from 8,000 miles away or
a disruptive startup next door. Under these circumstances, Under these
circumstances, the inability to execute on a strategy is generally exacerbated by a confusing – or completely absent – core or foundational strategy.
CREATING AN ARTICULATED STRATEGY
Build Context
Creating a new strategy is a
systematic, collaborative process
that starts with building context,
which leads to insight, and ultimately
results in a compelling and
articulated strategy.
Deep Understanding
Our unique approach to strategy
creation includes working with our
clients to build a profound
understanding of their business—
developing, analyzing, and selecting
their strategic options—and
ultimately implementing that strategy.
Rewarding Outcomes
An in-depth sense of buy-in,
ownership, and pride in the
outcome becomes the ultimate
driver of success by doing the work
themselves.
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