An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Lean Thinking

The Philosophy of Increasing Efficiency and Improving Customer Value

23 - 27 Mar 2026
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Introduction

Lean thinking is the cornerstone of an efficient and lean enterprise. This Lean Thinking training course provides a comprehensive coverage of lean techniques that enable organisations to create more customer value with less resources. Lean Thinking has successfully challenged traditional mass production practices, by providing ‘leaner’ processes and supply chains with less waste. Lean Thinking promotes a positive mindset where employees are encouraged and motivated to search for problems, to think and solve them proactively.

This training course covers the essence of Lean Thinking that Lean is all about maximising customer value while eliminating waste, saving money and building continuous improvement. This requires not just the creation of a lean enterprise for each product but also the rethinking of conventional firms, functions, and careers, and the development of a lean strategy. This training course introduces participants the philosophy of doing more with less with a focus on production and output quality.

This GLOMACS Lean thinking training course will highlight:

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Lean Thinking training course, you will learn:

 

Training Methodology

This Lean thinking training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course provides an interactive and participative workshop style that will challenge individuals and encourage lean thinking. This training course will also guide and facilitate learning and individual reflection, as well as using direct input, discussions, case studies, exercises and video. The lessons will seek to integrate theory with practice and will draw upon participants’ own backgrounds, experiences and views and encourage them to relate them to theory.

Lean Thinking

Who Should Attend?

Organisations will benefit from the participants adopting holistic lean thinking methods.

  • An organisational culture of lean thinking to create value and to sustain business growth
  • Increasing customer satisfaction
  • Reducing defects and waste across the whole value stream
  • Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of resources
  • Engaging all stakeholders in the improvement efforts
  • Promoting organisational learning and engagement

Learning Journey Breakdown

  • What is Lean?
  • The origins of Lean
  • Lean thinking can transform your organisation
  • Efficiency and effectivenes
  • Conventional operations management versus lean thinking
  • Lean in the service industry
  • Producing for the customer
  • The Principles of Lean Thinking
    • Identify value
    • Value stream mapping
    • Flow
    • Pull production
    • Pursuit of perfection
  • The cost of poor quality
  • Leadership
  • Develop a lean strategy
  • Continuous improvement
  • Mistake proofing
  • 5 Whys and Identifying Root Causes
  • What is waste?
  • The 8 types of waste
    • Transportation
    • Inventory
    • Underutilisation of Skills
    • Motion
    • Waiting
    • Processing (too difficult)
    • Overproduction (too much or too soon)
    • Defects
  • 5S and Kanban
  • Cost-push versus demand-pull production
  • The costs and benefits of just in time
  • Setting up Lean Thinking in your organisation
  • Communicate Lean Thinking
  • Policy Deployment
  • The 14 Principles of Lean Organisation
  • Autonomation
  • Total Productive Maintenance
  • Workplace complexity
  • The cost of complexity
  • Standardisation
  • Create standard work for flow
  • Install business systems to encourage Lean Thinking
  • Listen to bottom-up suggestions
  • Pay for performance
  • Overview

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