We developed our Lean Processing activity ‘KanDo Lean’ to help people we work with understand the core elements of lean processing: customer focus, continuous flow, balancing workloads, information flow, visual display systems (Kanbans), pull systems and supply chains.

The activity is simple and easy to run and fun to do, but don’t be deceived – it incorporates challenging tasks to provide the basis of a powerful and far reaching learning experience. The activity builds participants’ understanding by:

• involving everyone in a series of activities which build on each other
• systematic reviews to focus participants’ minds on key issues
• short information inputs in their personal work books to introduce concepts
• working through a learning transfer system to draw links with day to day work.
  The processes needed to establish, focus on, and meet customer needs