Achieving Sustainable Lean Transformation

For corporate leaders managing multi-site operations, achieving standardised, scalable, and repeatable excellence is critical.

Traditional improvement initiatives often fail to stick because they lack strategic alignment, long-term support, and cultural integration.

What is Lean Transformation?

The goal of any Lean transformation is to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement in your organisation. However too often Lean transformation programs deliver short term superficial benefits and fail to address underlying culture. 

TXM understands these challenges. Our Lean Transformation Program is designed specifically for medium to large corporations—ensuring that Lean is not just a project, but a sustainable business transformation. The alignment cycles ensure leaders control the direction and detail from the start.

How Companies Can Benefit from Our Approach to Lean Transformation

Many Lean transformations are driven from the top down. However, to create sustainable change, everyone in your business needs to see Lean as a better way of working, rather than another initiative from head office.

  • CEOs: Confidently scale best practices across all sites with minimal risk and measurable rewards.
  • Chief People Officers (CPOs): Drive a cultural transformation that identifies and supports talent, accelerating leadership development.
  • CFOs: Eliminate financial surprises and ensure predictable, measurable improvements in profitability.
  • Senior Leadership Teams: Establish a governance model that scales across different locations, cultures, and regulatory environments.
  • Site Leaders: Ownership of local transformation through local action plans designed to deliver the improvement each site needs.
  • Lean/Continuous Improvement Leaders: TXM work alongside the in-house resources.  This requires a lot of open conversations  to form, storm, norm and perform together.

Our Lean Transformation System – The Roadmap for Lasting Excellence

The TXM Lean Transformation System provides you the tools to develop an effective operating system tailored to your business. At TXM we have developed a unique and highly effective approach for achieving sustainable Lean transformation in medium to large corporations. Our six-step approach will make the difference for your company:

1- Strategic Alignment 

A structured preparation phase where we work with senior leaders in your organisation to define:

  • Why transformation is critical.
  • The key strategic goals the transformation will deliver.
  • The culture required for success.
  • The role of senior leaders in the transformation

2- Custom Framework Development

We create a tailored operational excellence model unique to your business. No one-size-fits-all templates—only proven approaches, customized to your business and your culture 

3- Scalable Improvement

Using proven lean tools, we ensure that your people achieve measurable results at the site level:

  • Site-specific action plans are implemented.
  • Company-wide themes and structural support are reinforced.
  • Providing your key people with the skills and capability to lead improvement. 

4- Lean Maturity Assessment & Governance

TXM ensures each site follows best practices by working with you to develop your own customised Lean maturity assessment:

  • aligned to your Lean framework, supporting long-term, self-sustaining excellence.
  • able to scale across multiple sites and multiple businesses.
  • Regular reviews and reporting at site and corporate level.

5- Leadership Development & Training

We don’t just implement processes; we develop future leaders by:

  • Training leaders using ISO 18404 Lean Practitioner Accreditation.
  • Developing internal Lean Experts to drive sustained improvements.
  • Embedding continuous learning into daily management.
  • Co-Creating inhouse training and refresher courses (including online)

6- Ongoing Support & Scaling 

Excellence isn’t a one-time event. TXM provides:

  • Annual maintenance contracts to ensure continuous adherence.
  • Diagnostics and review cycles for actionable feedback.
  • A Best Practice Network (AU & NZ) to connect and learn from industry peers.

Your Journey to World-Class Operations Starts Here.
TXM provides a structured, proven, and people-driven Lean transformation strategy that enables you do develop a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. 

What Makes TXM Lean Solutions Different?

How TXM Outperforms Traditional Corporate Lean Transformation Approaches

Our approach recognises that no two businesses are the same. For a Lean transformation to be sustained it must “fit” your business. Therefore, we are skilled in developing a unique Lean transformation framework and deployment approach tailored to your culture and business needs.

❌ Traditional Approach

  • Top-down, one-size-fits-all frameworks that don’t fit company culture.
  • Generic Diagnostic based on theoretical measures of “Lean-ness”.
  • Short-term projects that fail to sustain improvement.
  • Technology-first solutions that neglect people and culture.
  • Compliance-heavy methodologies that overwhelm teams.
  • No governance model to maintain consistency across sites.
  • Generic Training programs such as “belt” courses that impart theoretical knowledge with little practical application.

 

✅ TXM Lean Transformation

  • Tailored, business-specific frameworks co-created with company leadership.
  • Practical Customised Diagnostic tools that measure progress on the things that matter in your business.
  • Long-term, structured reinforcement (3-year program).
  • People-first, culture-driven transformation with strategic tech integration.
  • Practical, scalable, and easy-to-adopt strategies proven across industries.
  • TXM’s structured project governance with a responsive single point of contact for senior leaders.
  • Internationally Accredited Lean training (ISO 18404) based on applied learning that provides practitioners the skills and confidence to achieve real change.

 

Competitive Landscape: How TXM Stands Out

Many traditional corporate Operational Excellence solutions rely on rigid, “Lean by numbers” software-driven approaches or cookie cutter training models that fail to engage site-level teams effectively. In contrast, TXM’s model ensures corporate-wide engagement, cultural alignment, and long-term execution through:

  • A visionary, long-term engagement strategy.
  • A focus on developing and deploying your Lean operating system 
  • A cultural focus that ensures site-level buy-in and lasting change.
  • Proven results across corporate clients.

The TXM Advantage: Our tailored, people-first approach ensures that operational excellence is not just implemented but embedded into the fabric of your business—delivering lasting impact, from head office to the shop floor.

 

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