Course Description

This three course bundle contains The Right Way to Manage©, How to Identify Waste and Deciding What To Work On. This course will enable you to begin the Core Activity in The Right Way to Manage©: Identifying, quantifying and eliminating waste and help you determine the most critical improvement opportunities to work on.

Along with The Right Way to Manage© concepts, this course describes the four forms of waste — Material, Capital, Time and Lost opportunities — and provides examples from all types of organizations. It also explains three methods for identifying waste with detailed instructions for using each method.

You will learn how to develop a comprehensive list of waste examples from your organization and be guided through a systematic and transparent method to decide what to work on.You’ll learn a process to help you determine the improvement opportunities most critical to your organization.

The course curriculum is shown below.

Conway Management

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Before you begin...

    • Navigating & Contacting Conway Management
  • 2

    The Right Way to Manage — an Introduction (video: 21 minutes)

    • Background and key concepts
  • 3

    How to Identify Waste (video: 24 minutes)

    • Examples and methods to identify waste
  • 4

    Deciding What To Work On (video:15 minutes)

    • Method for prioritizing improvements
  • 5

    Appendix — supporting documents

    • Group Brainstorming (pdf)

    • Conducting A Waste Walk (pdf)

    • Waste Walk Form (pdf)

    • The Dougie Question (pdf)

    • Deciding What To Work On Reference & Forms (pdf)