Managing a Company the Lean Way: The Operating Management System
Build the routines, indicators, standards, and visual tools that connect your strategy to what happens on the shop floor — every day, in every function.
Course Content
Stop Letting KPI Tree Sessions Become Another Strategy Debate
This OMS Samurai course gives you the workshop structure for moving a group from strategic goals to terminal KPIs, named owners, and a first version of the management rhythm.
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Prerequisite: Ninja-level OMS understanding or equivalent knowledge of the seven OMS axes and KPI Tree method.
The Problem
KPI Tree workshops go bad in a very predictable way.
The strategy goes on the wall. People nod. Someone says “alignment.” Someone else says “cascade.” A senior manager talks for ten minutes about EBITDA. Then the room drifts into debate, definitions, excuses, and the usual polite confusion about who actually owns what.
By the end, everyone agrees the discussion was “valuable.”
Which usually means nothing concrete happened.
A real KPI Tree workshop does not end with better language. It ends with a visible connection between one strategic goal and the process indicators people can actually manage — with terminal KPIs, named owners, review rhythms, and commitments people are now on the hook for.
OMS Samurai is built for the person who has to lead that room.
You get the workshop structure, agenda discipline, diagnostic exercises, KPI Tree facilitation method, and commitment ritual needed to turn strategy talk into usable operating output.
Inside This OMS Samurai Course, You’ll Get:
- The workshop architecture that stops you from confusing an executive primer, deployment kickoff, diagnostic workshop, and transformation launch.
- The 4-hour and 8-hour OMS agendas, so you do not walk into the room with a slide deck pretending to be a plan.
- The KPI Tree workshop method that moves a group from strategic goals to owned terminal KPIs without letting the loudest person hijack the exercise.
- The maturity diagnostic exercises that show where the OMS is weak before the room jumps straight to solutions.
- The commitment ritual that turns “good discussion” into specific actions, named owners, and dates people can no longer politely forget.
Why You Need This Now
A weak workshop does not just waste a day.
It weakens your credibility.
People can forgive a technical mistake faster than they forgive a facilitator who loses the room. When the agenda drifts, when the sponsor dominates, when the skeptics take over, when the KPI Tree turns into a finance debate, everyone quietly learns the same thing:
That is why winging it is expensive.
If you are expected to facilitate OMS or KPI Tree sessions, you need more than confidence and a decent slide deck. You need to know what outcome the room must produce, who is in the room, what exercise to run, how long each block gets, how to handle objections, and how to close with commitments instead of warm applause.
OMS Samurai gives you the operating structure for that job.
Not theory about workshops. Not “engagement tips.” Not a pile of templates with no spine.
A facilitator system for taking people from strategy debate to owned KPI action — without losing the room on the way.
Built by the Kaizen Coach Team
OMS Samurai was built by the Kaizen Coach Team — Lean coaches with more than 20 years spent inside production environments, where a workshop either produces decisions, owners, and next steps… or becomes another expensive room full of professional nodding.
We built this course for the person who has to facilitate.
The internal consultant. The project manager. The CI lead. The person asked to run an OMS or KPI Tree workshop and somehow turn senior opinions, functional politics, weak data, and vague strategy into something people can actually act on.
OMS Samurai does not treat facilitation as “being good with people.”
That is charming. Also insufficient.
It gives you the working system: workshop types, audience mapping, physical outcomes, 4-hour and 8-hour agendas, materials kit, facilitator preparation, maturity diagnostics, KPI Tree exercises, timing discipline, objection handling, and commitment rituals.
Because a workshop is not successful because people liked it.
It is successful because the room left with artifacts, owners, and dates.
Real-World Experience Behind The Training
The OMS Samurai course builds on the OMS model used in real consulting work, including practical examples from a food-industry group and its subsidiaries.
That matters because OMS workshops do not fail in theory.
They fail when the sponsor dominates the room.
They fail when the skeptics derail the discussion.
They fail when the KPI Tree becomes a finance argument.
They fail when everyone agrees “alignment is important” and nobody owns the next action.
The approach behind this training also comes from work with teams inside companies such as:
- Sanofi
- Rio Tinto
- Henkel
- Electrolux
- Ferrero
- De’Longhi
OMS Samurai is built around the parts that decide whether the workshop produces useful output: clear objectives, mapped audiences, pre-work, canonical agendas, self-assessments, KPI Tree canvases, Gemba walks, affinity grouping, priority matrices, parking lots, commitment boards, and the close.
That is the difference between “we had a good discussion” and “we left with a v0 KPI Tree, terminal KPIs, named owners, and the next review date.”
Start The OMS Samurai Course Today
Get access to OMS Samurai and learn how to design, prepare, and lead OMS and KPI Tree workshops that produce real outputs.
You’ll get the workshop structure for choosing the right format, mapping the audience, setting the outcome artifact, preparing the materials, running maturity diagnostics, facilitating KPI Tree exercises, balancing voices in the room, handling objections, and closing with written commitments.
Because a KPI Tree workshop that ends in “good discussion” has failed.
Politely, perhaps. But still failed.
The next time you are asked to facilitate a session on KPIs, OMS maturity, strategy-to-process alignment, or Lean management routines, you can either rely on slides and hope the room behaves…
Or you can walk in with a system.
Click below. Start Samurai. Lead the workshop like someone who knows what the room must produce before anyone sits down.
Access is $50 per year.
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Prerequisite: Ninja-level OMS understanding or equivalent knowledge of the seven OMS axes and KPI Tree method.
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