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Lean For Small And Medium Sized Enterprise

Date: 24th March 2022
Location: Penninsula, Victoria Place, Manchester M4 4FB
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm
Theme: Business Strategy

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Lean For Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Workshop - featuring the Paper Airplane simulation 

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Lean concepts are powerful tools for increasing productivity and enabling your business to reach its growth and profit potential. However, the challenge is to adapt these powerful techniques, so they are relevant to the challenges of a small and medium-sized enterprise. Tim McLean is a world leader in the successful implementation of Lean in small and medium-sized enterprises and the author of one of the most popular books on the subject – “Grow Your Factory, Grow Your Profits”. Tim’s company TXM has worked with hundreds of SMEs in 16 countries including over 50 companies in the UK.
The workshop also features the airplane game, which is a great way for SMEs to understand key Lean concepts. It enables you to get practical hands-on experience of how Lean can transform business performance.
This event is aimed at business owners / senior leaders. It has been designed for 25 people to attendin total, with 1 person from each business to attend on the day.

In this highly interactive workshop, you will learn:

 

  • Why achieving profitable growth is such a challenge for small and medium sized businesses.
  • Core Lean principles that will help you see opportunity in your businesses.
  • Why a “big company solution” like Lean works so effectively in smaller businesses.
  • The steps to successful Lean implementation in small and medium business.
  • How to unlock your business’ growth potential.

 

The workshop also features the airplane game, which is a great way for SMEs to understand key Lean concepts. It enables you to get practical hands-on experience of how Lean can transform business performance.

This event is aimed at business owners and senior leaders and is designed for 2-3 people from each business to attend on the day.

 

Presenter – Timothy McLean

Tim McLean has spent 30 years helping businesses improve their performance. Firstly, as an Operations Manager and General Manager in manufacturing operations and more recently as a Lean consultant, keynote speaker and author, Tim has improved supply chains around the world. Tim’s books, “Grow your Factory, Grow Your Profits and “On Time In Full”, are published by renowned Lean publisher, Productivity Press and have made Tim a world recognised expert on implementing Lean in Smaller Organisations.

 

 

Agenda

Time

Agenda

09:30

Registration & Coffee

10:00

The Growth Challenge for SME’s - TXM

10:30

Introduction to Lean Thinking - TXM

11:00

Coffee Break

11:15

Understand Lean with a Simulation

12:30

Lunch

13.30

Topic ….Personal commitment to business improvement / develop A3 - TXM

14:30

Break

14:45

Finalise Topic/Q&A Finish 3:30

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