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Sustaining Continuous Improvement in Strategy Implementation – Excelling in Execution.

Course Overview

Continuous improvement (CI) has been a highly attractive endeavour for decades, yet many organizations continue to face challenges in turning CI aspirations into realities. The course will discuss how to build a sustainable continuous improvement system where improvement becomes part of the organizational culture.

Implementing and building a sustainable continuous improvement system entails more than executing numerous process improvement projects. Driving sustainable results over time and throughout the organization requires a continuous improvement culture, “the way we do work”.

Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments.

In the 20th century successful implementation, leveraged stability and typically proceeded through hierarchy and control. Today the key is to stay vibrant and able to quickly respond to trends in competition and technology while not losing sight of the strategic objective. In this course, we'll build a toolbox of techniques to execute today's business strategies to help them succeed.

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

- Create objectives and goals to guide strategy implementation

- Identify organizational structures that fit particular strategies

- Understand how to leverage company culture in the implementation

- Describe how to communicate the strategy so that the organization gets it

- Detect and mitigate risks to implementation

 
Course Outline

·         Continuous improvement, what is it?

·         Why continuous improvement is important

·         Continuous Improvement Tools and Methodologies

·         Improvement Tools and Methodologies

·         PDCA

·         Gemba Walks

·         5 Why’s

·         Toyota kata Coaching

·         from Managers

·         3M’s – Muri, Mura, and Muda

·         Continuous Improvement Software

·         What is 5S?

·         Benefits of 5S