Excel Templates
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Word and Excel templates for outstanding business process improvement

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Value Stream Mapping  

Depict and analyze the flow of inventory and the information that regulates the flow of inventory - in a way that makes it easy to see the 7 types of waste popularized in the book Learning To See.
You get TWO templates:
1) Simple, easy-to-use drawing tool
2) VSM-PowerTool that you won't outgrow when your executives learn enough about value stream mapping to start asking inevitable questions - because it comes with pre-programmed calculations for all of the most popular Lean metrics. 

These templates also come FREE with purchase of Continuous Improvement Tools Discount Bundle

1 seat
$399
 

Swim Lane Functional Flow Chart 
with Process Reengineering Matrix, Jobs Design Matrix, and Change Management
fill-in-the-blanks worksheets covering every concept in Ray Manganelli's Reengineering Handbook

These templates also come FREE with purchase of Continuous Improvement Tools Discount Bundle

1 seat
$299
 

Standard Work Combination Sheet  
The single most important tool in your Lean toolkit - that allows you to begin "ratcheting" your gains, to prevent backsliding into old habits. 4 tools in one:
     * Standardized Work Instructions (to analyze & improve, then paste in front of workers)
     * Value Add Analysis (auto-draws pie chart)
     * Operator Load Balancing (auto-draws bar chart in relation to Takt Time)
     * Standard Work Combination Table (auto-draws work, walk, wait, & machine time
        in relation to cycle time, target cycle time, and takt time
        for all operators involved in the process or just the one or few operators you select)

This template also comes FREE with purchase of Continuous Improvement Tools Discount Bundle

1 seat
$499
 

Visual Work Instructions  
Job instructions that are detailed enough to minimize the productivity and quality losses so common to training a new-hire or a vacation replacement.
Every instructional step can be supplemented with a picture or screen shot, perhaps with arrows or other shapes or text for further clarification of the picture. Pictures and instructions can be different sizes. And your ISO 9000 controlled final deliverable PDF can still have active hyperlinks to training videos, engineering drawings, or any other supporting documentation for that process step.

 This template also comes FREE with purchase of Continuous Improvement Tools Discount Bundle

Download free trial Visual Work Instructions

1 seat
$499
 

Excel Gantt Chart and Project Management tools 
Excel Gantt Chart Project Plan priced low enough that you might be able to afford a seat for every member of your team, Project Team Facilities worksheet, Project Cost Estimate worksheet, Decision Matrix,
Meeting Agenda & Minutes template, Priorities Consensus worksheet, Organization Chart, Team To Do List, and more

You get these Project Management templates FREE
with purchase of 2 or more seats Continuous Improvement Tools Discount Bundle

Download free trial Gantt Chart

$100
per seat
 

5 seat minimum

DMAIC Six Sigma tools 

Root Cause Analysis Fishbone Diagram that can import root causes from your FMEA (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis), Thought Map Relations Cloud Diagram to identify root causes too complex for a fishbone, SIPOC, House of Quality QFD, Cause & Effect Matrix, Pareto Chart, Measures Selection, Critical to Quality Tree, and more tools to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control the quality of your products & services

Notes: These non-statistical tools are intended to supplement, not replace your favorite statistics software

You get these DMAIC templates FREE with purchase of 2 or more seats Continuous Improvement tools

$100
per seat
 

5 seat minimum

Strategic Planning tools 

Balanced Scorecard, Policy Deployment Matrix, Strategic Plan, Priorities Consensus worksheet, Organization Chart, over a dozen Strategic Planning prep sheets, and everything your execs need to come to your next Strategic Planning session more prepared than ever

You get these Strategic Planning templates FREE
with purchase of 5 or more seats Continuous Improvement tools Discount Bundle

$100
per seat
 

5 seat minimum

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Get ALL of these Lean Kaizen tools for one low price...

Lean tools: Value Stream Mapping, 5S,
Standard Work Combination Sheet,
Visual Work Instructions (with words & pictures),
Standard Work Audit, Machine Balancing,
Spaghetti Diagram, and more...

Process Engineering tools:
Swim Lane Flow Chart, Process Engineering Matrix,
Jobs Design Matrix, and more...

Kaizen tools for kaizen event planning...

Training Program Design tools:
Standard Operating Procedure,
Cross Training Matrix,
Priorities Consensus,
Change Management, and more...

Everything that your team needs for outstanding continuous improvement

1 seat
$599
 

2 seats
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$499/seat
 

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you also get FREE:
* Project Management tools
* DMAIC Six Sigma tools

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$299/seat

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* Project Management tools
* DMAIC Six Sigma tools
* Software Project tools
* Strategic Planning tools

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Excel templates for Lean Kaizen Business Process Improvement

Most of our new clients find us because they are looking for Lean manufacturing and lean tools, or are looking for a toolkit for a Kaizen initiative for business process improvement.

The most popular Lean tool is the value stream mapping template, which uses special symbols known as "the language of Lean" to visually depict the flow of inventory and information. (Tip: Get a free trial version value stream mapping template when you sign up for our newsletter.)

The Spaghetti Diagram and Standard Work Sheet are used together to provide clearly understandable work instructions, using both words and visual images.

While lean tools are ideal for analyzing and optimizing highly repetitive processes with short cycle times, the swim lane flow chart software and related business process engineering tools are ideal for processes with medium-length cycle times, (like sales order processing, engineering changes, etc.).

With a toolbox full of Systems2win templates, your Lean leaders can focus on improving business processes - no time delays - no long learning curves - just impressive results.

The Systems2win six sigma tools are designed to fill in the holes found in the tool kit of many a Black Belt.

Yes, this is a suite of DMAIC tools to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control any process... but the big difference is that these tools don't do any statistics.

Your Systems2win Six Sigma toolkit includes all of those other quality improvement tools that your statistical software does so poorly (if at all).

The Ishikawa root cause analysis fishbone diagram, House of Quality, Quality Functional Deployment Matrix, FMEA, Measures Assessment, critical to quality tree diagrams, Kano Analysis, and team organization tools will dilate the pupils of any experienced DMAIC project manager.

Among the business planning tools, the balanced scorecard is the most popular. Executive teams use it to come up with strategic performance measures that are balanced between factors such as trailing vs. leading indicators, subjective vs. objective, goal attainment vs. relative improvement.

The policy deployment matrix, provides an impressively simple way of correlating "ivory tower" strategic decisions with everyday tasks.

The "hidden jewels" among these templates are the Strategic Planning Worksheets. These eleven fill-in-the-blanks worksheets help every member of your executive team prepare for your next round of strategic planning with succinct thoroughness for every topic ranging from sales to finance to logistics.

Every one of the above types of projects will benefit from the generic project management tools, which include a Gantt chart, and many useful tools that will brighten the eyes of any Project Manager.

If your company is doing an enterprise software project, then you will benefit from every continuous improvement tool mentioned above, plus about 50 more.

Our project management tools have been field-proven with hundreds of clients, and include everything your Project Manager will need to select and implement enterprise software.

Once you start changing things, you're soon going to need to start training your people to do things in new ways. Training Program Design tools include a Cross-Training Matrix, a Training Program Design Specification worksheet, and many helpful tools.

Use the Job Instructions worksheet to provide your new-hires and temporaries with detailed training - with written work instructions supplementing the (much more easily understood) pictures.

These templates will save you a lot of time, and make you look good.

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