Why Use LEAN Consortium?

The Lean Consortium is a unique concept in business improvement. It brings clarity and maximum simplicity to making improvements, with all the support you want over the twelve month, fixed-price, clearly structured programme. In the first six months we will:


Align improvements to your top business needs
Working with your senior management team we enable them to be effective improvement sponsors and coach them on project selection, so you can maximise results and minimise management involvement. We also provide strategies to help get the very best out of improvement teams.


Develop your people
We develop your managers and staff with a mixture of ‘hard’, practical improvement tools, combined with the people and leadership skills required for really effective change management, to ensure true ownership and durability of solutions. Our ability to bring this powerful mix of lean tools and leadership coaching in the right measure across your organisation massively amplifies the impact compared to applying lean tools alone.


Provide support tailored to your company
We recognize that ‘one size’ doesn’t fit all, and that your business has unique needs and issues. We provide tailored onsite training and project support to ensure improvement success. The ultimate example of this is the intra-company programme, as supplied to Sheffield Forgemasters and tailored to optimise benefits across all five of their business divisions.


Keep it moving
Working with us and with other companies provides strong external drivers to keep improvements high in your staff’s priorities, so these improvements really happen, and really stick.


Deliver real results
But don’t just take our word for it. Nearly 50 companies have successfully completed the Lean Consortium. Click here to find out what they really think and Click here to download and read our case studies.


After the first six months we keep working with you for six more to ensure improvements really are continuous, and momentum is maintained, and after that, we will always be on hand to help you- it’s part of our service.

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