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Why Choose Advanced Operational Excellence: Continuous Improvement Strategies Training Course?

The Advanced Operational Excellence Training Course equips professionals with essential skills to drive organizational performance through continuous improvement, benchmarking, and performance measurement. This course is designed for those who want to achieve measurable results by optimizing processes, increasing efficiency, and maximizing shareholder value.

Participants will gain a deep understanding of how performance measurement and benchmarking can transform operations. You will learn to identify the “vital few” KPIs that matter most, ensuring that your efforts have tangible impact. The course emphasizes the critical role people play in process success, integrating performance management with Lean and Agile methodologies to sustain improvements over time.

Through interactive sessions, case studies, and practical exercises, this continuous improvement training course enables you to implement best practices directly within your organization. Whether you are looking to enhance productivity, foster innovation, or maintain a competitive edge, this course delivers the knowledge and tools needed to make performance improvement a reality.

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Advanced Operational Excellence Training Course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the benefits of performance measurement, continuous improvement, and benchmarking.
  • Demonstrate how performance activities enhance organizational efficiency and productivity.
  • Identify and implement effective performance measures that drive results.
  • Apply process improvement and benchmarking techniques to optimize operations.
  • Integrate performance metrics with Lean and Agile tools for sustained improvement.
  • Develop strategies that connect employee engagement with process excellence.

This course ensures that participants not only understand the theory but also know how to apply it practically to create measurable operational gains.

Who is this Training Course for?

This continuous improvement training course is ideal for professionals involved in improving organizational performance and process efficiency, including:

  • General Managers seeking higher operational standards
  • Operational and Maintenance Managers driving performance initiatives
  • Maintenance & Reliability Engineers focusing on process improvements
  • Technical Managers and Supervisors managing teams and projects
  • Quality Managers ensuring organizational excellence

It is perfect for anyone who is actively engaged in performance measurement, continuous improvement, or benchmarking activities and wants practical, actionable insights.

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Advanced Operational Excellence Training Course combines modern adult learning techniques with practical exercises to ensure knowledge retention and immediate applicability.

The course delivery includes:

  • Tutor-led facilitation for interactive learning
  • Group discussions and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
  • Real-world case studies to illustrate best practices
  • Practical exercises to apply Lean, Agile, and performance tools
  • Video demonstrations for enhanced understanding

By using a mix of theory, interactive exercises, and practical application, participants leave with actionable strategies that can be immediately implemented in their organizations to improve performance and drive continuous improvement.

The Course Content

  • The Need for Performance Measurement
  • The impact of Lean and Agile methods
  • Data Use and Abuse: How to use Data Constructively
  • Selecting the ‘vital few’ Performance Measures
  • Performance measures in Operations and Projects
  • Current good practice in Performance Measurement 
  • Understanding Variation: The key to understanding performance
  • What histograms, run charts and control charts tell us about performance
  • The Range and Standard Deviation
  • Introduction to Control Charts
  • How to Improve a Process
  • Problem and Mission Statements
  • What are Lean and Agile?
  • The key principles of Lean management
  • Project failures and the origins of Agile
  • The fusion of Lean and Agile approaches – the current state of the art
  • Analysing a Lean and Agile process or project
  • Applying the tools and techniques in practice
  • Benchmarking process and project performance
  • Identifying causes of problems, and potential solutions through benchmarking
  • Demonstrating the link between a cause and its effect
  • Investigating Relationships between Variables
  • The role of Knowledge Management
  • How the tools integrate with Lean and Agile methods
  • Scoping and planning benchmarking study
  • Identifying and selecting benchmarking Metrics & Partners
  • Running effective Lean and Agile projects and processes
  • Integrating performance management with Lean and Agile
  • The role of benchmarking in change management

Certificate and Accreditation

  • AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

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Our training programs are hosted at luxurious five-star hotels in prestigious destinations across the globe. Some of our popular locations include Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Vienna, and many other iconic cities.

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