Business Development

The concept of lean management guidelines go back as far aso Henry Ford and recently the Toyota Company of Japan. It used to be known as the ‘just in time’ principles of manufacturing production and delivery. As with all right for the time concepts it has increased in size and scope and adapted to the needs of the new corporate world. This modern approach to waste management within central business processes is a set of principles and techniques that lean management consultants use to inspect anything in the process that is not completely related to enhancing the benefit derived from the product by the user.

The sequence of events that a company gets in the lean consulting process is as follows. The consultant gets the outline for the range of the assignment. The contract could be based around the whole company or just a small part) of a specific company operation. The next step is the assessment of the activity itself, all consultants will have their own [system for doing this and, as such, it would be better to describe the generic process. The consultant will produce a document and suggested implementations to the system they have studied perhaps he will recommend outsourcing some of the business functions or incorporating two business functions into one.

The whole process, once placed in the hands of a lean consultant, will have little impact on the everyday running of the business. This leaves core personnel to get on with their functions as normal. This effect has to balanced against the cost of engaging the consultant as it’s not so much what their process costs but what other costs it saves.

There are so many areas of the entity that it can be used with, but so often it is not used on activities that are considered ‘new’. We can all see that using such an concept on say a manufacturing operations but find it much harder to consider the idea of, say, software outsourcing or lean websites. The more that companies use these techniques and concepts the more wasteful parts of a business’s finished product can be spotlighted and discarded. This will always lead to the fantastic possibility of improving the profit line without loss of quality.

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