Straus Forest, LLC works with leaders who want to bring Lean productivity into their offices and services.
If you’re like most executives, you know what Lean, also known as the Toyota Production System, can do for productivity on the production floor. Yet, for some reason, expanding Lean into the office and service areas has been a stubborn challenge.
Straus Forest, LLC works with clients who know that they can get a lot more value out of their business processes. We show clients how to navigate those obstacles. They discover the latent value that is already there, but simply covered up by wasteful processes and practices. A lot of companies focus on the wrong things and burn money on solutions that really don’t address the root cause.
Successful Lean work in non-production starts with learning to make invisible business processes visible. We do this by using a unique suite of traditional and non-traditional Lean tools in a five-step iPDCA process customized for office and service processes
- Identify the issues and the business case
- Plan using special tools and techniques to (a) ensure alignment with the business strategy and (b) make the invisible value stream visible
- Do kaizen workshops tailored for non-production processes
- Check results on a regular basis
- Adjust in response to the results.
It’s not unusual for organizations who implement this plan to see productivity and other improvements in the 50% range—and better.
Carlos Venegas of Straus Forest has been helping companies improve their processes for over a decade. He has helped many organizations, including The Boeing Company, implement Lean in non-production settings. He is a certified Lean facilitator and trainer.
If you’d like to learn more about implementing Lean to increase productivity in non-production processes, browse this web site, or contact Straus Forest, LLC by phone at 206-919-0960 or email at info@strausforest.com.
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