Lean Six Sigma Champion for Small Businesses

Big or small, most successful businesses agree that in order to compete in today’s environment, they need to implement Lean Enterprise principles. While large companies have the resources to support in-house Lean Organizations, smaller companies always find themselves walking a budgetary tightrope between today’s priorities and tomorrows needs. Lean initiatives become line items on a business plan and are relegated to “when I get around to it” status.
MAP Business Solutions can offer part-time qualified, experienced Lean Six Sigma Champions as additional resources to small and mid-sized businesses. These Lean specialists are a fraction of the cost of a full-time Lean Six Sigma Champion that most large companies would hire. The Lean Six Sigma Champion is accountable and responsible to your business just like any employee.

The Lean Six Sigma Champion will:

• Conduct a full operational assessment of your business.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement.
• While working side by side with your full time employees, manage the implementation of initiatives designed to reduce lead times, lower costs, improve quality, improve delivery and increase sellable capacity.

Contact us to set up your initial assessment.

If we don’t think that you can benefit by adding our Lean Six Sigma Champion to your management team, we’ll tell you so and provide you with the information that show you why.

Value Stream Mapping and Analysis
                 
Implementing Lean techniques in a haphazard, unfocused way is a recipe for disaster. Some organizations apply Lean techniques that are not linked to the company’s goals and objectives and thus fail at becoming a Lean Enterprise. A Value Stream Map (VSM) looks at the “whole” of an organization’s product or service. The VSM provides a focused and prioritized plan for becoming a Lean Enterprise by identifying wastes within an entire value stream. Developing the Value Stream Map is a team effort and involves every department within a company.
Associates at MAP Business Solutions can provide expertise in the development of your Value Stream Map. We will provide a VSM champion that will:
• Help your team identify the key value streams within your organization.
• Lead your team in the creation of a Current Value Stream Map.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement.
• Assist in the development in the Future Value Stream Map.
• Organize and create, with your team, the Lean Implementation Plan that is needed to reach the objectives of the Future Value Stream Map.
Contact MAP Business Solutions to discuss whether or not Value Stream Mapping would be of great benefit to your organization.