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
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History of Continuous Improvement and the power of employee empowerment, statistical control, and visual management.
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Red bead exercise
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Overview of the M4 approach: map, measure, manage, mobilize
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The critical role of pencil thinking (flexibility over permanence) in operations
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The philosophy of operational cartography:
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The AC3DS functions attract, convince, clarify, create, deliver, and service.
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Comprehensive A/R System Mapping
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Techniques for visualizing organizational systems and identifying choke points
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Workshop: Creating base maps
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Understanding Organizational Entropy and Combating Waste
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What is entropy in organizations, and how it leads to inefficiency
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Strategies for Identifying the 8 Wastes of Lean
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Friction and the fundamental forces
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Real-world examples
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Day 2: Business Cartography discovering and designing relationships, patterns, moments, and paths
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Introduction to Map Layers management.
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Red bead exercise
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How to build layer maps from your base map for adding dimensions of time, flow, system and accountability.
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Creating and Maintaining a System of the Systems
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Creating a ranked and prioritized list of processes to optimize within your organization
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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
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Introduction to Map Layers management.
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Red bead exercise
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How to build layer maps from your base map for adding dimensions of time, flow, system and accountability.
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Creating and Maintaining a System of the Systems
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Creating a ranked and prioritized list of processes to optimize within your organization
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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