Who is LEAN For?

Almost everyone: they have been applied to every industry sector and to all sizes of company, from owner-managed to blue chip multi-national. If you’re averse to throwing money away then lean is likely for you, and if everything just takes too long, or you lack capacity, then lean can help. It’s a collection of improvement tools which you can use to make the changes you need. The need for lean often appears as one or more ‘symptoms’ which might include:

• Plateau’d business results
  
• Increasing need for working capital
  
• Excess stock / work in progress
  
• Customers demanding shorter lead times + inability to meet demand
  
• Sales increasing but profit staying flat
  
• Rapid company growth overtaking the capability of existing processes, work methods and organisation structures
  
• Costs increasing / too high / emerging low cost competition
  
• Need to rapidly boost output with same plant and equipment
  
• Unacceptable overtime costs
  
• Poor quality
  
• Poor staff cohesion / attitude / communication

If any of these apply to you, we’ll visit and provide a free, no-obligation report outlining key target areas and improvement tools, and if our programme isn’t what you need, it isn’t what we’ll suggest. Next steps...

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