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[null,"LEAN DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - EVALUATE YOUR BUSINESS READINESS FOR A LEAN TRANSFORMATION"]
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[null,null,"KEY","SCORE"]
[null,null,"Rarely found (20%)",1]
[null,null,"Found in some areas (40%)",2]
[null,null,"Commonly found but not in majority (60%)",3]
[null,null,"Very typical, some exceptions (80%)",4]
[null,null,"Found everywhere, no exceptions (100%)",5]
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[null,null,"Part 1 - Leadership","SCORE"]
[null,1,"I feel like an employee in my business."]
[null,2,"My management team will act responsibly on my behalf in my absence."]
[null,3,"My business can effectively withstand the loss of any key employee."]
[null,4,"Our team would say that I am a great role model."]
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[null,null,"Part 2 - Problem Solving"]
[null,5,"Problems tend to reoccur and we tend to firefight more than fire prevent."]
[null,6,"When problems surface we tend to play the blame game to avoid getting into trouble."]
[null,7,"When problem solving we look at what people did as well as how much the process contributed to the errors/mistakes."]
[null,8,"Team members are taught how to effectively analyze and solve problems."]
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[null,null,"Part 3 - Financial Analysis"]
[null,9,"I am measuring the right things for sustainability."]
[null,10,"The business understands how to convert assets into sales into profits (ROA)."]
[null,11,"As the owner I have clearly established goals and milestones that are linked to my financial Rosetta Stone."]
[null,12,"My financials are accurately provided on a monthly basis and used to analyze business trends."]
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[null,null,"Part 4 - Work Flow"]
[null,13,"There are daily backlogs of product or services (one or more units) found at any given work station(s) on a daily basis."]
[null,14,"We track our average product/ service lead times and the number of errors that are made."]
[null,15,"Our inventory management system not only counts product but establishes min/max reorder points."]
[null,16,"There is an established scorecard that tracks team goals and performance on key metrics."]
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[null,null,"Part 5 - Standardized Work"]
[null,17,"All work areas are clutter free and organized with just the essentials needed in the immediate area."]
[null,18,"Each work station is labeled to assure that organization is sustained."]
[null,19,"Standard operating procedures that everyone follows are clear, concise, and readily available in the work area."]
[null,20,"Leadership has a clear escalation and empowerment process to deal with unforeseen problems."]
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[null,null,"Part 6 - Continuous Improvement"]
[null,21,"We encourage smart mistakes as a means of learning to innovate and improve."]
[null,22,"My team regularly contributes ideas to improve their respective work areas."]
[null,23,"Each and every team member takes their cue from me and shows respect to one another."]
[null,24,"Continuous improvement is considered a formal and ongoing process that is evident throughout the business."]
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[null,null,"Part 7 - Human Resources Optimization"]
[null,25,"The right people with the right skills and training are in the right jobs."]
[null,26,"Metrics are aligned to performance and are measured for all employees. "]
[null,27,"Variable pay/performance based bonuses are an integral part of the employee compensation system."]
[null,28,"All employees are treated in a fair, firm, and consistent manner."]

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[null,null,null,null,"Financial Analysis",{"$f":"SUM(Questions!D25:D29)","v":0},{"$f":"IF(COUNT(Questions!$D$25:$D$28)=0,0,(F38/(COUNT(Questions!$D$25:$D$28)*5)))","v":0}]
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[null,"Scoring Instructions"]
[null,"   0 - 20%:  is very low and should be a concern. Focus on the area of concern to improve your score."]
[null," 20 - 40%:  is low and needs attention. Understand the requirements of the question and put remedial actions in place."]
[null," 40 - 70%:  is typical but by no means good enough to be a Lean organization."]
[null," 70 - 80%:  is average but not yet good enough. You are on the right path,but don't let up."]
[null," 80 - 100%:  is very good with 90%+ being world class. Don't rest now - continuous improvement is the name of the game!"]

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["Scoring Instructions"]
["  0 - 20%   is very low and would be a concern. You should focus on the area of concern to improve your score."]
["20 - 40%   is low and needs attention. Understand the requirements of the question and put remedial actions in place."]
["40 - 60%   is typical but by no means good enough to be a Lean organisation."]
["60 - 80%   is good. You are well on your way to being Lean in this category."]
["80 - 100% is excellent with 90%+ being world class. Don't rest now - continuous improvement is the name of the game!"]
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["Leadership is essential, for both growing the company and maintaining the synergy between actual results and anticipated. It is essential that in order for your lean drive to become an active part of the company’s culture, leaders from operational through to senior are driving the company and actively leading the lean journey. "]
["Customer Focus should be a primary driver for all business. Lean is primarily focused at creating and delivering value in the customer’s eyes, and it is essential to understand what the customer does indeed perceive as being of true value when your company produces its products and services."]
["Empowerment of your staff acts as a core mechanism for developing cultural change and increasing levels of morale, which ultimately reflect in individual work ethic and general performance levels amongst staff. It is important to utilise the workforce effectively through simple tools as job enrichment, delegation, regular meetings and giving teams the ability to try new ideas without reprimand."]
["Communications and the company’s associated policies should be viewed to effectively create cross functional knowledge sharing from process performance, business performance, including customer requirements. "]
["Core processes are a fundamental aspect to producing effective products and services. Understanding the value stream, using standard operations and effective workplace organisation are just some pointers for which to hone in on, and will help develop robust processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency. The key here is to create an effective workplace, which is clean, through 5s and then develop efficient processes to drive out further waste."]
["Plant and equipment is vital In order to improve your competitive advantage through Lean, your plant and equipment must be continuously maintained and there is equally an optimum layout, for which to improve efficiency and reduce wasteful activities. Such areas as; Poke Yoke (error proofing), cellular teams, optimum workflow and effective maintenance is regularly maintained to support you improvement activities."]
["Supporting processes. It is probably clear to see through such examples as ambiguous customer requirement specifications from sales or engineering, unrealistic lead time and delivery promises and disjointed production scheduling. A company’s supporting processes stem from its supporting functions, like sales, marketing, IT, Engineering and so on. It is vital that regular communication is conducted cross functionally, and that all supporting areas are aligned universally to production and associated restraints. If successfully implemented, the company should produce far less defects, increase flexibility to demand and also improve on its bottom line. It is recommended that a plan is generated to improve the processes, which support the manufacturing function."]
["Supporting infrastructure should allow production to perform to near capacity, smoothly and efficiently. Information and supporting elements should be aligned to assist production effectively. Performance and financial information should be shared across the firm. Personnel data should be available to employees and internal capabilities and competencies should be regularly monitored. If the infrastructure is in place, the company can develop its competitive advantage through its core competencies and really drive forward to enhance its operations."]