Lean Maturity Assessment

Are you looking to assess the improvement maturity of your team and double-check what actions should be taken next?

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The majority of business improvement assessments & roadmaps all have one key thing in common...

As well as coming across a bit like a drive-by shooting (where a central team assesses a team, gives them a rating, and then blasts them with *yet more* actions to do)

They ultimately focus teams throughout the business to work on the wrong actions at the wrong time, delivering few savings.

And while teams are being tasked with implementing actions to get a better score or a new badge, the real issues that hinder performance nearly always go overlooked.

We’ve learned that traditional improvement assessments do not work.

I learned this the hard way, after developing a lean improvement scorecard while working for a global leader with multiple locations.

To my dismay, teams would get a better score – but did not work on the right problems at the right time, so didn't improve performance.

And we are not alone in this thinking...

A VP of Business Excellence for a large multinational with over 30,000 employees recently confirmed that they recognised that:

“Improvement Assessments focused teams on the wrong improvement actions, but felt it was a means to leverage control over teams within the business”.

VP Business Excellence, Anonymous

Another organisation (with 32 facilities with world-class awards and over 120,000 employees) had to restart its improvement approach – at great expense – as it recognised that:

“...the corporate-led improvement approach was not working and left problem-solving and improvement voids across the organisations front line.”

Anonymous

And during an Industry Week keynote presentation, another executive of a global industrial leader admitted that:

"...the organisation had spent *decades* applying random Kaizen improvement activities – before learning of a better approach."

Measuring the application of improvement techniques and gaps does not work.

Instead, let Making Lean Work help you identify:

  • Your organisation’s REAL maturity level
  • The REAL underlying problems that are impacting performance and holding your teams back
  • Clear, actionable next steps and support to get you there

When you invite Making Lean Work into your business to assess your improvement maturity, you can be sure that you are getting:

  • An independent view from an experienced coach with over 25 years’ experience across a range of sectors and disciplines.
  • Clarity on the real issues that are impacting your organisation or team’s performance.
  • A clear, actionable plan of what steps your teams should be taking next.
  • A short refresher training to help you energise your management team and get them all on the same improvement page.
  • Ongoing support to help your team navigate the improvement pitfalls and get to the next level of maturity and performance.

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What our clients say...

"We have improved our output across all areas of our manufacturing plant by over 50% and we are developing a culture of solving recurring problems at the right level - from senior management to operator."

Ewan Reed
Operations Director, Technip FMC

"Darren helped us modify our lean behaviour, resulting in performance figures of >20% OEE improvement, >99% delivery performance on time and in full (while maintaining zero defects) and, more importantly, the recognition of the customer."

Matt Appleton
UK Operations & Improvement Manager, MANN+HUMMEL LTD

"Applying these tools delivered step change on Waste elimination. The site reached +10% pts efficiency improvement, and Associate Engagement increased, resulting in operational excellence."

Gabor Szabo
Site Director, MARS Petcare

Some more of our clients...

Meet Darren Walsh

When I started in the business improvement space, I was overwhelmed and frustrated by all the improvement tools, jargon, different approaches and making change stick.

After spending years on every course and benchmarking visit that I could get my hands on, and hiring some of the best improvement experts from around the world, I realised that instead of consistently crushing performance goals, too many organisations and their teams were actually going backwards!

The more they tried to do, the less they got done.

I created this system to help leaders and managers in multi-site organisations like you create highly effective improvement cultures and skyrocket business performance.

Darren Walsh
Director & Coach of

Making Lean Work Ltd