Optimizing Innovation I: Lean Theories, Tools and Practices   [Archived Catalog]
2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   
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SLO 5224 - Optimizing Innovation I: Lean Theories, Tools and Practices

Lean theories, tools and practices have proven to be a highly effective performance optimization approach across multiple industry sectors by providing organizations a data-driven, disciplined approach to reducing waste and minimizing defects as means of being responsive to market disruptions and the drive towards greater innovation and productivity. This course teaches students how to apply Lean as a practice of continuous identification and elimination of waste in planning, design, and operations while increasing innovation and overall productivity and end-to-end product and service quality. This course focuses on learning the Lean theories, tools and practices and uses the context of innovation to develop competencies in designing and implementing performance optimization interventions using Lean Thinking, Lean Production, Value Streams, and Gemba Kaizen. 3 credit(s)



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