Palo Alto, CA - Public Seminars
Lean Business Management System Master Class
Palo Alto, CA
Wednesday & Thursday
October 29-30th, 2008
SAP Labs
Palo Alto, CA
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| Attendance Fee (per person): |
$1,750.00 |
| Early registration discount (per person) if you register before Aug 31: |
$1,575.00 |
| Company discount for registering a group of 5 or more: |
Call for information
609.239.1080 |
What Is The Lean Business Managmement System?
This master class is for managers introducing lean manufacturing and finding the traditional business management systems are working against them. The fundamental changes on the shop-floor must be mirrored by similar changes in accounting, sales & marketing, business decisions, purchasing, the planning processes, and the way we use information systems.
 The lean business management system drives lean forward, provides clear and understandable information, motivates the right decisions, promotes continuous improvement, and is itself low cost and lean.
While working in the Lean Accounting context, this fast-paced, 2-day class will include "beyond Lean Accounting" topics including:
- Value-based pricing
- Lean sales & marketing
- Lean culture and more
Why Is This Important?
Lean manufacturing is a tightly integrated system for delivering value to customers in a continuous flow, from order to delivery, while working continuously to improve the process. The organized value stream is the structure that underlies lean.
Because it is integrated, a lean system will resist a piecemeal approach to making improvements if they are made without considering the impact of changes on the system as a whole. In fact, attempting to implement lean approaches on a piecemeal basis (such as cell-by-cell) without an over-all understanding of how the changes fit into planned system performance usually will undermine rather than improve business results of the lean system.
We maintain that lean manufacturing cannot be sustained long term without lean accounting. Simply put: lean accounting is a discipline that applies lean thinking to accounting control and measurement of the value stream. Lean accounting embodies an approach that takes a “lean system view” to measuring and managing the financial performance of the lean business. Lean accounting is itself lean.
Excerpt from The Lean Business Management System: Lean Accounting:
Principles & Practices Toolkit, published by BMA Press, 2007
Who Should Attend?
This class is designed for managers and professionals in companies pursuing lean transformation. Executives and senior managers, operations managers, plant managers, value stream managers, controllers and accountants, sales and marketing managers, lean leaders and specialists, production engineers, and other key personnel.
This class deals with the practical management of a lean enterprise. We recommend you bring a small cross-functional team representing the executive, operations, finance, lean, and sales functions of the business.
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