Incito has worked with countless Fortune 500 companies to improve their Lean Processes enterprise-wide.
Incito’s enterprise-wide lean management consulting services take a holistic perspective on an organization’s entire business functions, aiming to enhance overall efficiency and value and ultimately deliver optimal customer value. Our enterprise-wide lean (EWL) strategies help organizations achieve operational efficiency across all their core departments, including marketing, operations, digital transformation, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
The EWL approach extends lean manufacturing principles such as waste elimination techniques, mapping the value stream, creating lean flow, and establishing a continuous improvement culture in an organization. Our EWL strategies capture value across boundaries and between department silos. This enhances your team’s agility and work efficiency, and boosts customer satisfaction, which is the ultimate end goal.
What Is Lean Consulting?
Going Lean focuses on eliminating non-value-added activities across all business functions. These inefficiencies vary by sector: healthcare often struggles with information silos and unstructured data, while retail faces excess inventory. Lean consulting connects organizations with experts who audit processes, identify efficiency gaps, and implement strategies for sustainable operational excellence. Today’s consultants utilize Lean Six Sigma to address modern challenges like workplace automation and rapid technological shifts.
Lean Six Sigma integrates two core methodologies — Lean: Waste reduction and Six Sigma: Variation reduction
Implementing these strategies is critical for navigating contemporary business hurdles, including:
- Managing new wastes of Lean (Muda), such as digital waste.
- Balancing speed with excellence: Modern customers expect prompt service/product delivery with zero defects.
- Achieving environmental sustainability goals.
Benefits of Implementing Enterprise-Wide Lean
EWL transforms your business operations holistically across all departments rather than optimizing one function or department. The immediate advantages of implementing EWL in modern organizations include:
Enhanced Efficiency Across the Entire Organization
Our Lean consultants review your business processes with a fine-tooth comb to identify and eliminate excess and waste resources, using scientific methodologies like VSM. This results in more efficient workflows, which boost productivity in the short and long term.
Realize Improved Production Quality
Lean Six Sigma consultants reduce variance across production processes, enabling companies to manufacture products with little to no defects. We aim to reach and maintain an optimal DPMO rate in the long term.
Cost Reduction
Lean operational efficiency gains result in reduced production and service delivery costs. This ultimately boosts your bottom line with substantial long-term margins.
Leadership Alignment
Top Lean consultants offer Lean leadership training to teams and executives to ensure continuity. At Incito, we offer training programs including The Kaizen Bootcamp, Leader Standard Work, and Hoshin Kanri Workshop.
Incito’s Approach: How We Work to Deliver Results
At Incito, we believe every company deserves a specialized Lean Enterprise Transformation that installs a Lean mindset to build and sustain operational excellence. Our Lean approach is built on these five fundamental principles that we customize to serve the unique needs of each company:
1. Defining “True North” for strategic alignment:
We start by helping you align your company’s “Why” to strategy and action. This helps you create buy-in and build consensus among team members, making it easier to align your company’s vision with market demands and strategy execution.
2. Employing Enterprise Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for holistic value creation:
Incito’s VSM process entails mapping out all steps involved in business processes and identifying how each step contributes to operational success. This way, it’s easier to pinpoint bottlenecks and time-wasters and find sustainable solutions.
3. Fostering a culture of continuous improvement and engagement:
We install a Lean mindset that prioritizes incremental improvement (Kaizen). This mindset empowers your employees to be problem solvers and view enterprise-wide Lean as a journey, not a destination.
4. Implementing Lean Daily Management for sustained success:
Incito implements a Lean Daily Management system built on established routines and review cycles. This predictability facilitates proactive oversight, enabling your team to identify root causes before they escalate into larger issues.
5. Focusing on measurable results:
We quantify Lean success by measuring several key performance indicators, including throughput, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), defects per million opportunities (DPMO), and first-pass yield (FPY).
With Incito, they had the capabilities, energy, passion, and tools to unite my team. With Incito, we were able to bring our team together and agree on a unified vision statement.
— Thomas Snyder | President of Silgan ContainersWatch the video
Incito looks at a transformation with the culture first. The Incito team was really good about blending in, allowing us to be who we are, while still bringing in new concepts that we could fit into what we do. They taught us how to implement the processes and trained us to become Lean experts.
— David Moore | President of Rex MooreWatch the video
There's a lot of opportunity in our industry to improve with Lean. It was comforting having Incito walk through our foundry, and specifically nail a couple of ideas where we could improve in their short first visit. Incito was right, because we tackled those areas and had some big successes.
— Mike Emmerichs | VP of Operations at Pacific SteelWatch the video
Ready to get started with your Lean Transformation?
Incito Consulting is ready to help transform your business.
Incito offers a variety of services around Lean Consulting
Lean Learning Institute
Incito’s Lean Learning Institute equips participants with the skills they need for a journey to lean thinking. Drawing on proven adult learning methodologies, our Institute offers a range of interactive workshops that provide participants with the knowledge and incentive to deploy Lean Enterprise Transformation across multiple industries and organizations.
Lean Workshops
The Incito Lean Learning Institute offers a wide variety of interactive, inspiring, and insightful workshops that give attendees the skills and philosophy to align their companies to lean principles. Besides giving attendees personal insight and hands-on experience into lean transformation, our Lean Workshops will also help teams understand how lean principles intersect with their own continuous improvement goals.
Lean Leadership Development
Our Lean Leadership Development service trains existing and future leaders, partners, and change agents to adopt lean organizational methodologies and culture. Drawing on decades of experience with the Toyota Production System, we help clients find lean initiatives that suit their leadership skills.
Lean Supply Chain Consulting
Incito’s Lean Supply Chain Consulting helps organizations eliminate weak links from their supply chain. We use our expertise in Lean Six Sigma to streamline the decision-making process so that you can quickly fix problems and implement backup plans.
Lean CEO Training
Incito’s Lean CEO training teaches how to effectively deploy lean methodologies throughout an enterprise. CEOs will learn various business, leadership, and cultural systems, such as Truth North Vision and Philosophy, Organizational Design, Continuous Improvement, and Globalized Standardized Work for Leaders.
Incito-Man Lean Simulation
Our hands-on, live Man Lean simulation shows participants how to systematically implement lean to drive operational profitability and effectiveness. We also demonstrate how lean implementation can create customer-driven processes. Attendees will learn about the history of Lean and Lean Six-Sigma integration, problem-solving, defining value versus non-value-added activity, and more.
Lean Balanced Scorecard Design
Lean Balanced Scorecard Design helps companies create key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with their company vision. Team members will learn how to use the Balanced Scorecard methodology to ensure that their activities generate positive results and serve their overarching mission.
Why Trust Incito?
Incito is among the leading and trusted Lean consultants countrywide. Our Lean Six Sigma experts possess hands-on industry knowledge gained from decades of experience working as Lean professionals and business advisory experts.
Our niche knowledge is rooted in the Toyota Production System (TPS), having helped multiple clients implement TPS principles, including Continuous Improvement, Just-in-Time (JIT), Jidoka, and Respect for People.
Our dedication to Lean Enterprise Transformation has helped countless clients, from multinational corporations to innovative startups, optimize their business functions and achieve operational excellence. You can trust Incito to guide you through your Lean transformation and achieve sustainable process improvement results in whichever industry or sector you operate.
Extensive Industry Knowledge
Our extensive industry knowledge and experience enable us to select and utilize the most suitable Lean tools for your company. Common Lean tools we use besides VSM and Kaizen include:
- Cause-and-Effect Analysis (Fishbone Diagram) for root cause identification
- The 5S System for streamlining workplace organization
- Kanban System for visual workflow management and optimization
- The 5 Whys Technique for deep problem-solving
- 3P Lean Product for optimizing the product management process
- The Toyota Kata for an advanced continuous improvement process
The Industries We Serve
Manufacturing
Service
Administration
Supply Chain
Defense
Automotive
Energy
Aerospace
Biotech
Construction
Lean Consulting FAQs
At Incito, Lean consulting is all about guiding companies through Lean Enterprise Transformation. Our Lean consultants take a holistic perspective when reviewing a client’s opportunities and challenges that can facilitate or impede a company’s realization of operational excellence.
The four main differences between Lean and traditional process improvement are:
- Lean is heavily data-centric, while traditional methods are less so.
- Lean improvement follows structured frameworks, such as DMAIC, whereas traditional methods don’t follow formalized frameworks.
- Lean is ideal for complex and massive projects with a high scalability potential, while traditional methods work best on smaller projects that grow incrementally.
- Lean is suited for in-depth problem-solving analysis, while traditional methods are ideal for smaller, less complex problems.
Lean leads to enhanced process efficiency, reduced production costs, and increased product/service quality.
All operational businesses in any industry can leverage Lean Consulting.
No. Lean is cross-functional and applicable to any other existing business in fields such as healthcare, education, pharmacy, etc.
The duration of a lean transformation depends on several factors, including the complexity of operations, commitment levels, and company size, among others. However, you can expect minor changes within weeks or months, but major transformations often take years.
Incito uses:
- 5S
- Kaizen
- Team-Based Problem-Solving
- Statistical Process Control
Incito offers training and certification for team members and leaders to help them maintain and enhance the Lean gains they’ve achieved after project completion. Such programs include Leader Standard Work.
