Operations Management and Throughput

Improvement effort is often spread across a process rather than concentrated where output is actually limited. This programme covers process mapping, constraint identification and the sequence of exploiting, subordinating and elevating a constraint, applied to the delegate's own operation.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Map a process as it actually runs rather than as documented.
• Identify the constraint that limits throughput.
• Exploit and subordinate before spending on capacity.
• Measure improvement in throughput rather than in local efficiency.

Operations managers, production supervisors, and continuous improvement practitioners.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A current state process map with real timings.
• A constraint identification with supporting evidence.
• An exploitation plan requiring no capital.
• A throughput measure set.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.