Consulting - Michelle Kimbro Consulting

Organizational Assessments

In considering a lean management system solution for your organization, conducting a readiness assessment is essential to ensuring a positive implementation and sustainability.

Our company has developed an effective, robust maturity assessment tool that evaluates:

Leadership alignment
Continuous process improvement
Organizational culture and employee engagement
Data-driven decisions and results

The assessment takes 2-5 days to complete depending on the size of your organization. A detailed report of the assessment will contain a progressive plan for your organization to deploy a lean management system.

Strategy Deployment

Align everyone in your organization with your strategic objectives!

Strategy Deployment is an organizational planning and execution process that focuses on critical improvements and effectively translates strategic goals into results through a top-down and bottom-up process that connects the business needs with the means to achieve them.

Our team will work with you to develop a robust strategy deployment process to:

Create the Organization’s Vision and Goals
Build the Strategy to support the goals
Develop Tactical Plans to support the strategy
Project Portfolio Analysis and Development

Lean Architecture

Design a new building that focuses on efficient processes.

Our team can assist your organization in designing a new building focusing on Lean principles:

Facilitation of design meetings using the Lean approach to ensure the future design is based on flow and will support operational improvements.
Flow and demand analysis to support building an environment that will yield optimal utilization of space.
Space Utilization Assessments based on historical volume data to validate current and future space needs.
Minimizing transportation distances
Ensuring proper motions for workers
Minimizing waiting
Eliminating over-production and over-processing

Kaizen Event Coaching

Our team will work with your leadership team to design a Kaizen event following Lean methodology. We will assist your organization in scoping the event, ensure we have involved the right participants and that the deliverables are clearly articulated and measurable. Our team will provide Just-in-Time training to those involved in the event and will lead the event activities.

5S: Workplace Organization

Efficiently organize your space to increase safety and efficiency!

Eliminate waste through minimizing motion, unorganized workspace, and ineffective design/layout of your facility. Our team will coach your organization to Sort, Straighten, Sweep, Standardize, and Sustain. They will work with your team to ensure that the event is successful both in the delivery of the tools as well as in the involvement of your teams to ensure sustainability of results.

Kanban Replenishment Inventory Management Systems

Create a pull system for your products and services based on customer demand!
Our team of coaches will work with you to design a Kanban system that will assist you in determining appropriate inventory levels and building an effective process to maintain those levels. Implementing a Kanban system will help your organization:

Reduce supply expense
Improve inventory management
Reduce storage space
Increase productivity
Improve quality

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