What We Believe
Lean Applies to All Projects
Lean thinking principles are fundamentally just good common sense. Unfortunately, it's an uncommon common sense. Jim Womack and Dan Jones articulated five principles that were generalized from their study of the Toyota Production System. Those principles are: Define value from the customer's perspective and in their language. Organize just those work steps necessary to produce the customer value as a value stream. Make the work flow (uninterrupted) along the value stream. Do the work "at the pull" of the "customer." Pursue perfection by making today better than … [Read More...]
Last Planner System
Lean Project Consulting, Inc. (LPC) offers a packaged approach to implementing the Last Planner® System (LPS) on your projects. Teams need to embrace new habits for any new approach to succeed. A company's first lean projects take hand-holding, encouragement and follow-up. LPC's Last Planner Quick-Start leverages interaction with the team until … [Read More...]
Lean Transformation
The commonsense understanding of lean is as a set of principles and practices that arise from Toyota's way of producing automobiles. This is a naïve view. Too often, people focus on the lean tools rather than the real object of Toyota's strategy...the ongoing development of people. Toyota's “pillars” are respect for people and continuous … [Read More...]
What We Do
Lean Project Consulting (LPC) provides management consulting services to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) industries along with other project-based firms. The company focuses on … [Read More...]
Integrated Project Delivery
IPD is the latest change to the way projects are delivered in the built environment. It grew out of the difficulties during attempts to deliver design and construction in a lean way. Moving scopes from one consultant to another and one specialty … [Read More...]