This course includes a free copy of the best­selling book “Lean Think­ing: Ban­ish Waste And Cre­ate Wealth In Your Cor­po­ra­tion” by Wom­ack & Jones.

Lean Man­age­ment has been a total rev­o­lu­tion in the auto­mo­tive indus­try and since then sparked wide­ly across sev­er­al oth­er indus­tries and branch­es. Many how­ev­er, have no real idea what Lean actu­al­ly means, what it is or what makes the lean method­ol­o­gy suc­cess­ful. Oth­ers have heard about it, but have no real expe­ri­ence.

This lean train­ing is designed to facil­i­tate the mean­ing of Lean and its prin­ci­ples, deliv­er prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence and exam­ples and to present the most com­mon tools used in lean. Train­ings and inter­ven­tions will acti­vate you and guide you to the change process.

The lean train­ing is held and run by for­mer Porsche man­age­ment con­sul­tants, who are experts in suc­cess­ful lean trans­for­ma­tions. Our train­ing fea­tures prac­ti­cal tools and tem­plates, derived direct­ly from the man­age­ment con­sult­ing busi­ness. Inter­ven­tions, prac­ti­cal exam­ples and war-sto­ries round off the train­ing and are all con­tex­tu­al embed­ded. The lean train­ing is fur­ther­more enriched by your dis­cus­sions and inputs, which will lead to a com­mon under­stand­ing and broad­er learn­ing. Our espe­cial­ly devel­oped Stein­beis Con­sult­ing Cen­ter Inter­cul­tur­al Acad­e­my-Sim­u­la­tion will final­ly rein­force your new­ly acquired knowl­edge.

Basis for our sim­u­la­tion is a pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ment as it can be found in sev­er­al places around the world. As the game con­tin­ues, you will expe­ri­ence opti­miza­tions by the intro­duc­tion of lean prin­ci­ples. This will enable you to touch, feel and see the direct effects of your actions. In oppo­site to many oth­er lean sim­u­la­tions, we have put a great effort in depict­ing com­plex­i­ty in the sim­u­lat­ed prod­ucts. That way you will be able to rec­og­nize that lean is not pure­ly designed for stan­dard­ized pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments (like the auto­mo­tive indus­try), but can eas­i­ly be trans­ferred to com­plex prod­ucts and (appar­ent­ly) lit­tle stan­dard­ized, unpre­dictable busi­ness areas like admin­is­tra­tive func­tions.

We will present to you in a for­ay how such a trans­fer of lean man­age­ment to the admin­is­tra­tive area can be mas­tered. Addi­tion­al­ly you will learn how coach­ing and tar­get­ed, pyra­mi­dal com­mu­ni­ca­tion will guide you and your employ­ees through a bot­tom-up ori­ent­ed lean trans­for­ma­tion.

Your qual­i­fi­ca­tion ends with a cer­tifi­cate as Inter­na­tion­al Lean Coach & Facil­i­ta­tor (SHB) issued by the Stein­beis Uni­ver­si­ty Berlin