Led by renowned business optimization consultant Derrick Mains, this bootcamp combines cutting-edge methodologies with over 20 years of experience across 150+ companies. You'll gain insights into Mains' unique approach, which melds essentialism with human-centric design, emphasizing regular audits and reinvestment for true optimization.
Perfect for operations managers, process improvement specialists, and key organizational stakeholders, this bootcamp offers a blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on workshops. You'll leave equipped with practical tools, including take-home team exercises, to immediately apply your learnings and drive tangible results.
3-Day Operational Excellence Bootcamp
Day 1: Introduction to Operational Excellence, Foundation, and Mapping
History of Continuous Improvement and the power of employee empowerment, statistical control, and visual management.
Red bead exercise
Overview of the M4 approach: map, measure, manage, mobilize
The critical role of pencil thinking (flexibility over permanence) in operations
The philosophy of operational cartography:
The AC3DS functions attract, convince, clarify, create, deliver, and service.
Comprehensive A/R System Mapping
Techniques for visualizing organizational systems and identifying choke points
Workshop: Creating base maps
Understanding Organizational Entropy and Combating Waste
What is entropy in organizations, and how it leads to inefficiency
Strategies for Identifying the 8 Wastes of Lean
Friction and the fundamental forces
Real-world examples
Day 2: Business Cartography discovering and designing relationships, patterns, moments, and paths
Introduction to Map Layersmanagement.
Red bead exercise
How to build layer maps from your base map for adding dimensions of time, flow, system and accountability.
Creating and Maintaining a System of the Systems
Creating a ranked and prioritized list of processes to optimize within your organization
Introduction to the Process Triage Methodology
Detailed explanation of Process Triage: how to perform pain gathering, triage, and ranking
Using The Process Fixer portal to conduct triage
Where measurement fails, Alternatives to KPIs
Distance, time, cycles, actions, ways to measure with a map
Determining system performance limits via the QQC Process Control Method.
Automating, Outsourcing, Abbreviate and Eliminating
Key criteria to decide when to automate, outsource, abbreviate, or eliminate tasks within core processes
Strategies to drive lean thinking throughout the organization by focusing on value-adding activities
Day 3: Manage and Mobilize Implementation Planning and Continuous Improvemen
Introduction to Map Layersmanagement.
Red bead exercise
How to build layer maps from your base map for adding dimensions of time, flow, system and accountability.
Creating and Maintaining a System of the Systems
Creating a ranked and prioritized list of processes to optimize within your organization
Introduction to the Process Triage Methodology
Detailed explanation of Process Triage: how to perform pain gathering, triage, and ranking
Using The Process Fixer portal to conduct triage
Where measurement fails, Alternatives to KPIs
Distance, time, cycles, actions, ways to measure with a map
Determining system performance limits via the QQC Process Control Method.
Automating, Outsourcing, Abbreviate and Eliminating
Key criteria to decide when to automate, outsource, abbreviate, or eliminate tasks within core processes
Strategies to drive lean thinking throughout the organization by focusing on value-adding activities
I’ve never seen my team come together to solve so many problems in a single day. We all know exactly what to do next!”
Seeing how each piece drives the next and how ‘pains’ affect customers vs. employees has made everyone feel so connected now.”
It’s incredible to build our process map and have an open dialog without executive management taking part.”
