A common goal of almost all of our clients is to maximize productivity, increase efficiency, and improve. With increased efficiency, organizations can meet their goals, overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and satisfy constituents and customers. An efficient organization continually improves allowing for positive growth, operations, and development. Though this is a goal of most organizations, the capacity to achieve this goal doesn’t always align. To achieve and maintain innovation, change, and continuous improvement, an organization must adopt an approach that supports those goals. TSI’s continuous improvement and Business Process Improvement training and mentoring options help organizations learn about and adopt an approach to refine or develop capabilities and skills to successfully implement improvement initiatives. Using a customizable training methodology, TSI develops a personalized training and mentoring option that uses content relevant to the client’s industry.
Our experienced team works collaboratively with our clients to learn the foundational methodology of CI and BPI to help build processes and strategies that work for them. CI and BPI training offers an opportunity for individuals and teams to learn strategies and tools to drive, support, and facilitate improvement for their organizations. Improvement can occur at many levels and can take shape using a variety of tools and approaches. Whether focusing on people, process, policy, technology, or culture, improvement is possible. Strategically fostering and managing a culture of improvement, we train and mentor organizations to intentionally build strong foundations and implement the use of best practices and tools to navigate their most challenging improvement initiatives.
Using a variety of tools and techniques, our training methodology engages individuals and teams to develop competencies in using the CI and BPI tools. From a high-level introduction to Continuous Improvement, to a detailed, in depth dive, TSI customizes training and mentoring programs for each client.
TSI offers several customizable Continuous Improvement and Process Improvement training options:
Customized training to meet the needs of our clients
Public or group workshops
TSI fosters Continuous Improvement and Process Improvement in a very applied manner. Based on extensive research and best practices in CI and refined by hundreds of projects, TSI has developed an entire CI and BPI methodology and pragmatic approach for improvement. This approach helps organizations foster, facilitate, and achieve improvement and efficiency so that client teams experience project success.
Not only do we implement Continuous Improvement and Business Process Management strategies for our clients and organizations, TSI provides in-depth, hands on training and mentoring on CI and BPI. Our experienced team combines formal education and training with over 25 years of experience with hundreds of improvement-oriented projects. Our team has developed pragmatic, practical tools, strategies, and solutions to help organizations work more efficiently.
Over the past 25 years, TSI has trained thousands of corporate and higher education employees to understand and excel in Continuous Improvement and Business Process Improvement. This training enables TSI’s clients to develop their own capabilities and level of proficiency through customized, relevant training content using real-world, industry appropriate examples and cases.
TSI strives to work with all of our clients be it at the executive, middle or upper management, staff, faculty, students, or other participants to develop a shared understanding and a clear path for training to ensure development and proficiency of competencies of CI and BPI strategies and tools. TSI leverages processes, contexts, and experiences from our consulting engagements to facilitate practical, hands on workshops. To best meet the needs, skills, and knowledge level of our clients, we customize our training to ensure the use of industry-relevant, practical content.
Whether you engage TSI for long-term transformation initiatives or a small-scale project or training opportunity, we focus on establishing a foundational and working understanding of Continuous Improvement for implementation at your organization. Our training focuses on leveraging people, processes, policies, and technology to ensure sustainable CI outcomes that meet your unique goals.
Continuous Improvement (CI) Methodology
Continuous Improvement is defined as an ongoing effort to improve products, processes, or services by reducing waste or increasing quality. It is a methodology, a mindset, and way of doing things. It is about improving the flow of processes, removing waste, satisfying constituents, developing and engaging staff, solving problems, and producing high-quality, repeatable results. However, in all industries, organizations change in response to people, technology, outside influences, leadership, the economy, pandemics, and the list goes on.
TSI’s CI tools and strategies are grounded in the following CI Methodology:
Step 1 – Plan: Plan ahead for change, analyze results, predict results
Step 2 – Do: Execute the plan, take small steps in controlled circumstances
Step 3 – Check: Study the results and verify outcomes
Step 4 – Act: Take action to standardize or improve the process
Process Improvement Methodology
Our Process Improvement approach and experience leverages our design thinking, re-engineering, lean, quality, and optimization skills. TSI’s Process improvement methodology follows a structured approach to define a process, analyze a predetermined scope of work of a process, and work to improve its performance. To accomplish improvement, we facilitate an iterative process that challenges the status quo and current activity surrounding processes, technology, norms, pattern, and people. The methodology consists of a process of forward-thinking action focused on understanding what is happening now in a process, understanding why it is happening in how it currently exists, and what is desired to happen in the future. With all of our process improvement engagements, TSI concludes with specific and detailed recommendations that we typically help to implement. In parallel, we define key performance indicators so we can truly, and objectively measure the Cost, Quality, Service, Speed, and Compliance performance measure or metrics.
TSI’s Process Improvement methodology consists of six main steps:
Step 1 Initiate the Project (Clarify Project Objectives and Outcomes)
Step 2 Define Organizational Context
Step 3 Define Current State Processes
Step 4 Analyze Current State & Technology Gap
Step 5 Define Future State Improved Processes
Step 6 Create a Recommended Action Plan and Implement Recommendations
Each training engagement utilizes our proprietary tools and techniques, combined with resident insight and best practices. Our expertise, built upon our unique approach, tools, and techniques, creates a customized solution that allows us to train individuals and organizations with the necessary toolkit to incorporate improvement practices into the fabric of their organization.
TSI uses a variety of strategies to provide training and mentoring to clients. Some approaches include standalone workshops, workshop series, applied consulting and training, and cohort training and mentoring using an I Do, We Do, You Do model. We use a variety of tools and techniques to help our clients understand and improve processes. Frequently these include the following:
Building awareness, transferring skills, orienting diverse audiences, and generating excitement is a critical component of TSI’s approach. TSI’s CI and BPI training workshops focus on some of the following objectives: