OpEx Bootcamp Agenda

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 Layers management.

    • 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 Layers management.

    • 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
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