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Developing a roadmap for successful lean transformation is a customized process involving common elements. It has no end, and its review is constant.
Let's take a look at each component of the roadmap:
1. Identify gaps in efficiencies and lean culture readiness. It is critical to understand the baseline by which we measure progress, and to structure deployment in line with the readiness of the company.
2. Define roles, create standard work and stimulate accountability for:
- Leadership: inspire, measure, manage, maintain
- Value Stream Managers: transform the value stream
- Supervisors: Change behaviors and support
- Workforce: Contribute, participate
- Lean Champion: Coach, review, revise
3. Plan the enterprise-wide transformation and manage its effect on customers, suppliers, and employees.
- Develop management systems
- Develop change management and communications plans
- Plan the gradual spread across the enterprise
- Integrate the supply chain
4. Encourage lean-based workforce thinking and discipline through a learn-do process of applying:
5. Transform the first Value Stream.
- Identify and deploy rapid improvement (Kaizen) events
- Identify performance measures
- Deploy visual management
6. Implement and manage the plan.
7. Plan for business growth.
- Prepare to fill new capacity
- Assess new capability requirements to meet demands of new markets
8. Review progress and revise.
- Identify obstacles and implement solutions to overcome them
- Adjust the roadmap as necessary to ensure long-term success
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