Helping Northeast Florida Organizations Thrive with Lean Thinking

Lean Jax

🟢 Seeking a proven enterprise-wide strategy that will provide your organization with the ability to achieve its’ goals and accelerate growth?

🟢 Interested in fostering a learning culture that will take employee engagement to new heights and consistently delight your customers?

🟢 Looking for an opportunity to connect with Lean organizations and practitioners from across the First Coast and beyond?

If you Answered “Yes” to these questions, than Lean Jax is the place for you!

❇️ Founded in 2003, the Jacksonville Lean Consortium (Lean Jax), is a vibrant, member-driven, non-profit organization committed to empowering Northeast Florida organizations to accelerate their journey toward operational excellence through Lean thinking and practice.

🌟 Our Commitment: At Lean Jax, we empower our members to pursue operational excellence by establishing a vibrant culture of continuous improvement that places respect for people at its core. We build dynamic work environments dedicated to delivering exceptional customer value, supported by Lean champions at every level of the organization. These proactive problem-solvers are committed to driving meaningful change every day.

Lean Jax Helps its’ Member Organizations Achieve Impactful Results!

✅ A medical device manufacturer saved an average of $10 million per year for the first five (5) years of its’ Lean transformation journey with extensive support from Lean Jax.

✅ Through a Lean Jax facilitated rapid improvement event, a medical identification card producer (and 7-year member of Lean Jax) transitioned from batch production to continuous flow, increasing production and profits by 10X ( 900% improvement) by the end of the first month.

✅ Through a series of rapid improvement events, an independent laboratory reduce the lead time of a critical value stream by 57% and improve efficiency by 65% within the first three (3) months.

✅ Slashed product/service lead times from 6-months to 2-weeks (92%), 6-months to 3-weeks (88%), 5-months to 10 days (93%), 109 to 10 days (91%), 99 to 10 days (90%) and 23-days to 2-hours (99%) in various business sectors.

✅ Through a series of rapid improvement events, a law enforcement agency’s clerical department eliminated the time and cost of reproducing 3.15 million unnecessary copies of daily reports and presentations each year.

✅ By leveraging A3 problem solving and facilitation support from Lean Jax, a medical device company secured $700,000 in funding for a critical information technology application.

✅ A design-build construction firm implemented standardized work for meeting facilitation, reducing the time top management spends in meetings by 50%, freeing up over 10 hours of each leader’s time each week to spend on value-added work.

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