At Business Improvement Partners our goal is to help you realize the true power of your lean efforts. We do this by using what we call a “Collaborative Lean Approach.”

We believe that Lean Manufacturing is a set of management tools designed to reduce the thru-put time of a business process, streamline an organization, and reduce operating costs. However, traditional lean is very top down driven and utilizes a vast amount of management to ensure the lean tools are being used. One could almost say that lean manufacturing in it’s most traditional form is un-lean.

Collaborative Work Systems are designed to help empower, challenge, and drive meaning into the everyday jobs of your employees. They tap into a level of employee self-empowerment and they expect a higher level of responsibility and accountability from the work group.

Our “Empowered Lean System” takes the tools of Traditional Lean and the concepts of Collaborative Work Systems and marries them together through education. The “Empowered Lean System” truly drives problem solving and decision making closer to the point of manufacture.

Our “Empowered Lean System” enables you to stop force driving Lean Concepts and engages the Hearts and Minds of your employees instead of just their backs. This methodology lets you mold and shape the Collaborative Lean efforts of every employee to produce, by design, a streamlined, high performing business that will compete in Today’s Global Market.

By designing a Collaborative Lean environment we look at your business culture and develop a method of Lean tool implementation that gives you better, more long lasting results and minimizes the risk of Lean being the management tool of the month.