Advanced courses

oee has a range of training modules that explore advanced tools, techniques and behaviours essential for Lean programmes to be successful. The courses can be stand-alone or can be combined with other modules and previous experience to attain accredited qualifications prescribed by the Lean Competency System developed by Cardiff University’s Lean Enterprise Research Centre.  This training is used by organisations who wish to train a number of their staff in particular topics.  The training is highly interactive and is usually delivered on the client’s site although a training venue can be provided by oee if required.  To discuss your advanced training requirements email or call us now.

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Communications & Stakeholder Management
Consultant Behaviours
Customer Driven Service Excellence
Kanban
Lean in Customer Facing Environments
Operations Design & Work Organisation
Operational Risk Management
Performance Management
Planning & Forecasting
Policy Deployment
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Scoping
Service Excellence in Telephony
Service Excellence Through Continuous Improvement
Total Productive Maintenance
Value Stream Management

Communications & Stakeholder Management

Learn how to identify important stakeholders and to manage them. Use the RACI model (responsible, accountable, consulted and informed). Be able to design a communications strategy for a project.

Topics include:

Force field analysis

Stakeholder management

Stakeholder planning

Communication


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Consultant Behaviours

Outline the key differences between management and consultant behaviours.  Understand how your own behaviour needs to adapt in a consulting role.

Topics include:

Context and consulting cycle

Effective consulting behaviours

Creating a working contract

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Customer Driven Service Excellence

Be able to articulate the three value disciplines and their characteristics, understand the Kano model, define “moments of truth” and how quality function deployment can be used for design of service requirements.

Topics include:

Exploring value

The Kano model

Moments of truth, lean consumption and the seven service wastes

The 'Gaps' model of service quality

Measuring customer satisfaction

Quality function deployment 

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Kanban

Examine the costs and risks associated with holding inventory and explore the use of a “pull” based system to control material.  Develops the “pull” concept into an operating model that involves the use of Kanbans to control the flow of material.

Topics include:

Inventory management

Just in time

Kanban in practice

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Lean in Customer Facing Environments

How Lean applies in the front office. Which Lean tools fit and which don’t. Understand the challenges and apply the appropriate tools.

Topics include:

Managing demand

Work organisation and design

Standardisation

Implementation

Benefits and "so what" plan

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Operations Design & Work Organisation - 2 day

Learn about the key components of an operation. Be able to specify the requirements of customers, stakeholders and staff in terms of design. Understand the key steps in a design process and assess different designs through optioneering. Correctly select the appropriate work organisation approach for various situations.

Topics include:

The design cycle

Developing objectives and optioneering

Evaluation and improvement

Theory of constraints

Division of labour, variety and variability

Cellular processing, layout and pull

Work organisation in practice

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Operational Risk Management

Understand a coherent approach to the risk management process and how it links to the Lean agenda.  Know how to identify the key issues that need to be addressed to get full value out of risk management.

Topics include:

Putting risk into context

The risk management process

Risk and the Lean manager

Case study

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Performance Management

Understand motivational theory and the importance of measurement. Learn about the impact of coaching models and how performance monitoring should be conducted.

Topics include:

Motivational theory

Defining the performance management process

Measures and objective setting

Performance monitoring and review

Coaching

Rewards and incentives


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Planning & Forecasting

Understand the planning rationale, how planning should be organised, how to construct a capacity planning system and how the tools can be transferred to the work place.

Topics include:

The planning rationale

Planning definitions

The planning organisation

The planning system

Forecasting

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Policy Deployment

How to align improvement activity with strategic objectives throughout the whole organisation and ensure that meaningful results are delivered on time.

Topics include:

Policy deployment and the critical thinking process

Breakthrough objectives and improvement priorities

Policy deployment matrix

Executing policy deployment

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Project Management - 2 day

Pragmatic structure, skills and knowledge for the successful implementation of a lean improvement project: - project structure, stakeholder engagement, project definition, initiation, planning, management skills needed, communications strategy and project control.

Topics include:

Stakeholder engagement

Defining the problem

Planning the project

Characteristics of a project manager

Stakeholders and communication

Controlling the project

Closing the project

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Quality Assurance - 2 day

Understand why checking and audit regimes are not sufficient to achieve world class levels of quality. How to use Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) to identify and quantify process and operations risk. How to build resilience into a process by integrating prevention and self-inspection approaches. How to implement a quality surveillance plan.

Topics include:

What is lean quality?

The Jidoka methodology

Goals Measures and baselining

Current state analysis

Process redesign

Implementation and action plans

Sustainability and surveillance plans

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Scoping

Learn how to conduct high level scoping and assess the most appropriate improvement approach for a given area.

Topics include:

The need for scoping

Scoping structure

Detailed scoping

Preparing a scoping excercise

Presenting a report

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Service Excellence in Telephony

Understand the relevance of Lean in telephony & contact centre environments. Why absorbing variety rather than reducing variety is so important.

Topics include:

Five Lean principles in contact centres

Wastes in telephony

Standardisation and quality

Skills management

Planning capacity in telephony

Failure demand

5S


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Service Excellence Through Continuous Improvement

How to set up a Continuous Improvement programme and sustain a Continuous Improvement culture.

Topics include:

Team based problem solving

CI to improve customer service

Establishing a CI programme

Costs and benefits


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Total Productive Maintenance

Understand the objectives and principles underlying the eight pillars of TPM. Know how to use the tools and techniques for measuring and improving the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of equipment.

Topics include:

The eight pillars of TPM

The OEE measure

Practical application of the OEE measure

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Value Stream Management

Understand the principles of value stream mapping, link the 7 wastes to Value Stream Management, understand Lean consumption mapping. Learn a step by step approach to go from current to future state.

Topics include:

Lean consumption and the true customer experience

Lean consumption mapping

Failure modes

Improvement techniques

Future state maps

So what planning

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