Lean Thinking Workshop

COURSE DURATION  5 Days

Dates: 22^nd – 26^th June 2026

 

Lean Thinking is all about maximising customer value while eliminating waste, saving money, and building continuous improvement. This requires not just the creation of a lean enterprise for each product but also the rethinking of conventional firms, functions, and careers, and the development of a lean strategy. This training course introduces participants to the philosophy of doing more with less, with a focus on production and output quality.

 

This ALARDI AFRICA Lean thinking training course will highlight:

• The fundamental principles of Lean Thinking
• Development stages and successful implementation of lean
• Optimising operations
• Lean communication
• Value maximization

 

Objectives

At the end of this Lean Thinking training course, you will learn:

• To understand lean processes and techniques to achieve corporate success
• Critically analyse and evaluate a range of theoretical perspectives of lean thinking
• Apply appropriate lean methodologies
• To successfully deploy lean methods to drive business performance.
• How lean techniques help to achieve greater efficiency

 

Training Methodology

This Lean thinking training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. This course provides an interactive and participative workshop style that challenges individuals and encourages lean thinking. This training course will also guide and facilitate learning and individual reflection, as well as using direct input, discussions, case studies, exercises, and video. The lessons will seek to integrate theory with practice and will draw upon participants’ own backgrounds, experiences, and views, and encourage them to relate them to theory.

 

Organisational Impact

Organisations will benefit from the participants adopting holistic lean thinking methods.

• An organisational culture of lean thinking to create value and to sustain business growth
• Increasing customer satisfaction
• Reducing defects and waste across the whole value stream
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of resources
• Engaging all stakeholders in the improvement efforts
• Promoting organisational learning and engagement

Personal Impact

This training course on Lean Thinking will personally benefit the participants by being able to apply the thinking and techniques to identify, evaluate, and improve issues affecting organisational performance.

• Solving problems using Lean Thinking methods
• Applying the Lean Philosophy to work practices
• Enhanced efficiency and consistency in performance
• Improved career flexibility and prospects
• Employing tools and techniques to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction, profitability, and growth

 

Who should Attend?

 

This ALARDI AFRICA Lean Thinking training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

• Senior and middle managers across all industries
• Supervisors
• Non-management staff who intend to improve processes within their organisation
• Professionals whose job responsibilities are expanding to include operations decisions
• Anyone currently managing processes, departments, or an entire organisation

 

Course Outline

 

Day 1. Introduction to Lean Thinking

• What is Lean?
• The origins of Lean
• Lean thinking can transform your organisation
• Efficiency and effectiveness
• Conventional operations management versus lean thinking
• Lean in the service industry
• Producing for the customer

 

Day 2. Lean Management

• The Principles of Lean Thinking
  • Identify value
  • Value stream mapping
  • Flow
  • Pull production
  • Pursuit of perfection
• The cost of poor quality
• Leadership
• Develop a lean strategy
• Continuous improvement
• Mistake proofing
• 5 Whys and Identifying Root Causes

 

Day 3. How to Reduce Waste

• What is waste?
• The 8 types of waste
  • Transportation
  • Inventory
  • Underutilisation of Skills
  • Motion
  • Waiting
  • Processing (too difficult)
  • Overproduction (too much or too soon)
  • Defects
• 5S and Kanban
• Cost-push versus demand-pull production
• The costs and benefits of just-in-time

 

Day 4. The Lean Enterprise

• Setting up Lean Thinking in your organisation
• Communicate Lean Thinking
• Policy Deployment
• The 14 Principles of Lean Organisation
• Autonomation
• Total Productive Maintenance

 

Day 5. Simple is Beautiful

• Workplace complexity
• The cost of complexity
• Standardisation
• Create standard work for flow
• Install business systems to encourage Lean Thinking
• Listen to bottom-up suggestions
• Pay for performance
• Overview

 

Certificate

• On successful completion of this training course, the ALARDI Africa Certificate will be issued to the participants.

Venue:

Kenya-Mombasa                 Cost USD 1800

Tanzania-Arusha                 Cost USD 1900

Dates: 22^nd – 26^th June 2026