by An overview on what lean certification is and why it can help a business of any type or size run more productively.
Regardless of the type or size of business operation you are in charge of, your bottom line is profitability. And if you are hemorrhaging money or just doing a slow bleed, you may need to re-examine why you are not operating your business in the black.
There are several factors that can negatively impact your businesses ability to turn a profit including poor business practices, poor management skills and wasteful production habits. As easy as it is for small things to impact a business, it is just as easy for those small things to be turned around to create a strong, sustainable business.
If you’re a manager or business owner, you should take the proper steps to ensure your company is operating at top efficiency because efficiency is the key component to a strong business. Your managers should all have lean certification in order to be efficient managers who are running your company in a manner that is sustainable not just for the short haul but for the long haul of generations to come.
Consider this- regardless of the type of business you are in charge of whether it is a large hospital or a small manufacturing company, your business is still run with the intent to make money, minimize losses and create a product or need that is of high quality and sought after. By investing in lean six sigma certification, you are ensuring your company has the proper tools to accomplish this goal. You wouldn’t dream of starting a hospital without beds, medicine or a staff, so why would you consider running any type of business without the proper tools and training for success in place?
The key components to lean certification are to teach managers the best practices for their particular organization with the goals in place to eliminate waste, improve problem solving techniques and create standardization within the organization.
Certifications can be tailored to any type of business so certification is very specific to the actual business needs and challenges whether it’s healthcare certification, manufacturing certification, office certification or a more general lean certification to help reduce cost and increase profit and productivity. Certification will create standardization practices to eliminate waste which may appear small on the surface but when a company is losing enough in small change over time those small losses add up to big problems.
Often times even the most educated managers will lack the ability to zero in on areas where time or product is being wasted or mishandled and this added education can create the bridge to the real world need to run lean.
Managers who are successful in obtaining their lean certification are going to become stronger managers because they are going to have a better base understanding of the key concepts to business success and they will learn how to make any business, regardless of the tough economic times run itself to the best of its abilities.
