Business Process Improvement

Value Stream Mapping

Value Stream Mapping is our most popular Lean tool.

And when you purchase any one of our bundles of templates, you get a free 5S workplace organization audit form, which is often the first important step on your Lean Journey.

Lean Manufacturing templates

Spaghetti Diagram and Standard Work

The Layout Diagram template can be used for simple floor planning purposes, but it really shines as a spaghetti mapping tool for Lean process improvement. And Standard Work is arguably the most important of all Lean tools - because if the people doing the actual work aren't doing it the way that everyone agreed was the best way to do it - then your entire lean effort was wasted.

The swim lane functional flow chart is extended with several Business Process Improvement spreadsheets that encompass all process engineering concepts taught within The Reengineering Handbook, by Ray Manganelli.

Once you start changing things, you're going to need to start training people to do things in new ways.
That's when you will soon appreciate Visual Work Instructions, and the entire Systems2win suite of Word & Excel templates to design a training program.

The Excel Gantt Chart template (licensed for unlimited users) will dilate the pupils of any Project Manager.

You won't get far on any Lean Journey before encountering quality problems. The Systems2win Six Sigma templates provide all of the other DMAIC Six Sigma tools (that your statistical software does so poorly).

The Balanced Scorecard comes bundled with an entire suite of templates that will help your execs come to your next Strategic Planning session more prepared than ever before.

If your company happens to be selecting or implementing ERP, accounting, or inventory software, then these templates will save you literally tens of thousands of dollars by enabling your own in-house people to do more.

Hosting a Kaizen Event is one of the most field-proven ways to rapidly improve a process - and make the gains stick. Our Kaizen tools bundle provides everything you need to plan, do, and follow up after a Kaizen Event.