“Your team walks past money on the floor every single day. Teach them to see it.”
Train your team to spot the 8 wastes in everyday work and turn observations into improvement projects.
categories of waste your team will learn to spot
waste observations captured in a single workshop
of identified waste is fixable in under 30 days
Once teams can name waste, they can't unsee it. The biggest shift isn't the workshop day — it's what happens the next morning when employees start solving problems they walked past for years.
average annualized savings per quick-win idea
of waste walking surfaces months of buried problems
of teams leave with at least one project chartered
An anonymized snapshot from a recent engagement. Names and identifying details changed — outcomes and methodology are real.
Workshop & waste walk
Day 1
Quick-win execution
Weeks 1–4
Overtime re-measure
Week 8
42
Waste observations logged
6
Quick-wins chartered
−28%
Overtime change
$180K
Annualized savings
Figures rounded and lightly anonymized to protect client identity.
Headline outcome
$180K annualized savings
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The exact same methodology — applied to software, SaaS, IT, marketing, or professional-services workflows. Anonymized snapshot from a recent engagement.
Headline outcome
+18% delivered story points
Same DMAIC, RCA, mapping, and standard-work tools — applied to digital workflows like Jira, Salesforce, HubSpot, GitHub, Asana, and Notion.
Annualized savings
~$850K / yr
~2.9 hrs/wk reclaimed × 60 engineers × ~$95 fully-loaded hourly cost × 50 working weeks, plus the +18% throughput gain on the same headcount.
Waste hides in plain sight — overproduction, waiting, unnecessary motion, defects, excess inventory, over-processing, transportation, and underutilized talent. A waste walk gives your team the language and lens to see it.
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“The team walked in skeptical and walked out with a working improvement and a control plan to keep the gain.”
— Engagement sponsor, Regional distribution center
Outcome
$180K annualized savings
Headline outcome from a recent engagement
Identifying details changed. Methodology and results are real.
“Our proposal-to-SOW cycle had quietly become our biggest deal-killer. A custom 3-day program with our real pipeline turned that around in a quarter.”
— Managing Partner, Professional Services / Consulting
Outcome
−57%
Proposal-to-SOW cycle time
Identifying details changed. Methodology and results are real.
“Our site VPs were running five different playbooks. One day in a room together fixed something we'd argued about for years.”
— VP of Continuous Improvement, Healthcare Network
Outcome
+22pt
Engagement score lift in 4 months
Identifying details changed. Methodology and results are real.
“We thought our velocity problem was a hiring problem. Two hours mapping our sprint workflow proved it was a meeting and review-queue problem.”
— VP of Engineering, B2B SaaS
Outcome
+18%
Story-point throughput in 60 days
Identifying details changed. Methodology and results are real.
“Daily huddles changed the cadence of the entire plant. Issues that used to die in monthly reports get solved by lunch.”
— Plant Manager, Consumer Goods Manufacturing
Outcome
+11pt
OEE improvement, no capex
Identifying details changed. Methodology and results are real.
Specific to Waste Identification Workshops — scheduling, format, prerequisites, and what to expect.
No prior certification is required. Waste Identification Workshops is built so anyone in the room — from frontline operators to senior leaders — can contribute on day one. We meet your team at their current level and build from there.
Standard duration is 1 day. Schedules are flexible — full days, half-days, or split across weeks to fit your operations. We finalize the cadence with your sponsor before booking so it works around real production and staffing constraints.
Yes — delivery is on-site walkthroughs included. Onsite is best when the work is physical or floor-walks add value. Remote works well for office, knowledge, and multi-site teams. Hybrid (a facilitator onsite plus remote breakouts) is increasingly common for distributed organizations.
Frontline employees, Supervisors, Continuous improvement teams get the most out of it. We strongly recommend including an executive sponsor for the kickoff and close-out — alignment at that level is what turns workshop output into real change.
Most teams identify quick wins during the workshop itself and deliver team trained on the 8 wastes with real examples from your business within 30–90 days. Larger structural improvements typically land within one to two quarters once the control plan is in place.
Yes. Every engagement starts with a short scoping call to tailor examples, exercises, and templates to your industry, your terminology, and the specific processes you want to improve. Generic case studies don't make it into the room.
Facilitation by a Master Black Belt, all materials and templates, a documented output (current-state map, charter, A3, or control plan depending on the workshop), and a 30/60/90-day follow-through plan. We can also bundle coaching for project leaders if you want execution support.
Typical cohorts run 8–20 people for hands-on workshops and up to 30 for training-style sessions. Smaller groups go deeper; larger groups build wider capability. We'll recommend a size based on your goal during the consultation.
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