Learning resources, guides and best practice
Lean is about making continuous improvement and implementing processes that result in improved workflow, value to the customer and optimised business efficiency.
To help suppliers develop their Lean management plans, we have created this Lean Management Plan Guidance.
The following supporting information relates to National Highways minimum standards and guidance which provide further detail to help suppliers comply with Lean requirements and good practice.
Support documents
Guides
Introduction to the collaborative planning system
Guide to Lean collaborative planning
Guide to Lean visual management
Introduction of Lean visual management in maintenance
Introduction of Lean visual management in construction
Introduction of Lean visual management in design
Guide to SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers)
Lessons learnt: the Alliance Lean Production System (ALPS)
Our Smart Motorway ALPS Playbook is a recommended read for those who have a role in managing projects. The playbook captures everything the Smart Motorway Alliance team did to make Lean stick and become business as usual. It explains how ISO 18404 was used as a key building block to help sustain Lean, along with other Lean tools and methodologies, and how all this was brought together to create the ALPS approach.
Lean best practice
The following Lean Management Plan good practice examples have been collected to inform and provide further assistance to suppliers who are compiling their Lean Management Plans and implementing Lean on projects.
This section will be reviewed and updated with further examples of best practice as they become available.
Leadership
Schedule of leadership Lean activities carried out on the project (to be added)
Strategy
Deployment
Stakeholder plans (to be added)
Process satisfaction measures (to be added)
Methodology and tools
Practical problem solving guide
Guide to Lean visual management
Competence and capability
Lean develop plan for Tier 1+2 (to be added)
CI culture
Plan to rewarding success examples
Supplier engagement
Lean Tracker Knowledge Database
