E23: Calculating Financial Benefits for Improvement Projects - Lean Portland Happy Hour - July 2022 Lean Portland

After making improvements to your processes, a best practice is to calculate the benefits to the organization. Calculating financial benefits is an important part of building momentum for improvement with upper management. However, this can be confusing for those not familiar with financial data, and is not done very often in organizations.  

Brion Hurley will discuss commonly used methods for capturing financial impacts of process improvement work.  

The 5 categories are: 

• Income Statement 

• Cash Flow 

• Growth 

• Avoidance 

• Soft Savings  

We will define each category, go through a few examples, and go through a practice exercise as a group.  

Links discussed in the video: 

Lean 101 Virtual Training - June 26, 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lean-101-tickets-367967449547

Case Study Example: https://www.leanadvisors.com/lean-success-stories/manufacturing/client-saved-800-000-in-3-days

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