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Dwane Lay
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Experience
Dovetail Software
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Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
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A
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ess
mployees
re
eeded
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Value Added
Parameters
Resumes
Interviews
Non-Value Added
Waiting
Approvals
Forms
TRANSPORT
ATIONINVENTORY
MOVEMENT
WAITING
OVERPRODU
CTIONOVERPROCE
SSINGDEFECTS
UNDERUSED
PEOPLE
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Business As
Usual
Project Work
Business As
Usual
Project Work
Bottom Up!
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Bottom Up!
Top Down!
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Name Influen
ce
Involvemen
t
Mom Critical Withhold
love
Dad Critical Withhold
golf
Boss Signific Withhold job
My New Tattoo!
Business Strategy
HR Strategy
Bottom Up!
Top Down!
Outside
In!
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Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
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Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
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A series of activities that transform a set of
inputs into a specific set of outputs.
Everything we do is a process.
PROCE
SS
Output: Goods, Services, Products
Function: The steps that transform the
Inputs
Inputs: Equipment, Process, People,
Environment, Materials,
Management
Y to X Tree - Applying LSS Principles
to HR
Apply LSS
Principles
LSS Metrics
LSS
Deployment
Sessions
LSS ROI
LSS Belt Certifications
Y X – Level 1 X – Level 2
LSS Champion
Certification
Number of BB/GB
Projects Completed
Project Tracking
Mechanism
Y to X Tree - Revenue Growth +15%
Revenue
Growth +15%
Service Personnel
Sales
Personnel
Retention of top talent
Sales training for
new/existing team
Y X – Level 1 X – Level 2
Finance Personnel
Revised comp plan to
emphasize revenue
Exit plan for bottom
10%
Fishbone Construction
Identify the problem to be solved
Top
Talent
Leaves
Fishbone Construction
Define the categories (bones) of the causes
People Materia
l
Proces
s
Environ
ment
Equipm
ent
Manage
ment
Top
Talent
Leaves
Fishbone Construction
Construct potential cause detail
Compensati
on
Training
Culture
Product
Stay InterviewTools
Strategy
Leaders
Team
Projects Recogniti
on
Tech
Territory Turnover
Peers
Job
Market
People Materia
l
Proces
s
Environ
ment
Equipm
ent
Manage
ment
Top
Talent
Leaves
Fishbone Construction
Prioritize causes for investigation
People Materia
l
Proces
s
Environ
ment
Equipm
ent
Manage
ment
Top
Talent
Leaves
Compensati
on
Training
Culture
Product
Stay InterviewTools
Strategy
Leaders
Team
Projects Recogniti
on
Tech
Territory Turnover
Peers
Job
Market
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Well there’s your
problem.
$90.00
$80.00
$70.00
$60.00
$50.00
$40.00
$30.00
$20.00
$10.00
Y = f(X1, X2, X3…)
Chart of Electricity Consuming
Devices
Impact
Category
Definition
Net Hard
Savings
Total estimated hard savings less investment to
implement.
Number of Task
Owners
Total number of people performing the job
function within the impacted area.
Impact Scope Area of project impact, usually geographic.
Strategic
Impact
How closely related is the project to business
goals?
Effort
Category
Definition
Project
Expense (T&E)
Expected spend on travel to bring the project
team together to execute the project. Does not
include implementation costs.
Time Expected time to execute project and begin
realizing savings.
Functions
Involved
Number of functions that are responsible to
execute the project and capture the savings.
Systems
Impact/Change
Impact the project implementation will have on
any of the HR systems or applications.
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
The DMAIC Model
D - Define: Identify the problem/ opportunity for
improvement - Define Y
M- Measure: Can we measure Y effectively? Create the
baseline and goal.
A - Analyze: Identify the key factors (X’s) affecting Y
I - Improve: Identify, evaluate, and select the best
solution(s) to improve Y
C - Control: Execute the plan to improve Y, sustain and
Control
Performance
Improve
Performance
Analyze
Opportunities
Measure
Performance
Define
Opportunities
Lean HR: Applying Process Excellence to Your Practice
Dwane Lay
dlay@dovetailsoftware.com
LeanHRBlog.com
Twitter: @DwaneLay
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hwww.linkedin.com/in/dwanelay

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