OPEN CALL

The
lean diamonds
Awards 2023

Lean | Innovation | Digital | Sustainability

Extended date: June 15th is the deadline to submit your expression of interest and to complete the self-assessment for the category of your interest.

About the Awards

We aim to discover, acknowledge and diffuse the most transformative journeys!

Lean. Innovation. Digital. Sustainability

LEAN DIAMONDS AWARDS CATEGORIES

Lean Thinking

If your organization has implemented lean thinking successfully, impacting the efficiency of any process; for example, manufacturing, office, supply chain, enterprise.

Lean Innovation

If your organization has optimized the development of new products and/or services by implementing lean practices in the innovation process.

Lean Digital

If your organization has optimized any process by adopting any of the Industry 4.0 enabling technologies.

Lean for Sustainability

If your organization has applied successfully lean thinking and practices to achieve not only economic benefits, but also positive environmental and socialimpact to your organisation, your employees and society aligning to the UN 2030 Agenda .

What is Lean Thinking?

Lean or Lean Thinking is all about engaging individuals and teams to deliver value to internal and external customers, employees and the society. It applies different practices to ensure that value is created and waste is eliminated, by focusing on developing a problem-solving and continuous improvement culture.

What is Lean Innovation?

Innovation is the use of new knowledge to offer new products, processes, services or experiences that adds value to the customer and is, at the same time, technologically feasible and financially viable for the company to enable its business growth. Lean Innovation refers to applying lean principles to remove waste and accelerate the innovation process.

What is Lean Digital?

Industry 4.0 refers to a group of technologies which are available in the market and aim to support organizations in their digital transformation process. Lean Digital refers to the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies to remove waste and increase efficiency in order to add value to the customers and employees. It also refers to the application of these technologies to solve problems.

WHAT IS LEAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY?

Sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being. Lean for Sustainability focuses on integrating lean thinking to define and execute initiatives to improve internal processes to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, implement circular economy strategies and/or optimize the usage of natural resources, reduce poverty, etc, just to mention few examples.

Increase process efficiencies and standardization. Engage and empower employees to continuously improve the status-quo.

Integrate lean thinking into any sustainability initiative to reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions, align to the UN 2030 Agenda and/or implement circular economy, etc.

Accelerate the development of new processes, products, services and experiences. Deliver user-centric solutions based on iterative learning cycles

Apply Industry 4.0 technologies to automate processes, make smarter data-driven decisions and design new digitalized experiences, products and services.

BENEFITS FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS:

ASSESS YOUR LEAN EFFORTS

Assess your lean maturity

JOIN A VIBRANT LEAN COMMUNITY

Enjoy access to a broader audience of lean professionals who can lead to the growth of your business and brand reputation

SHARE BEST PRACTICES

Inspire and get inspired from the very best cases

GET A COPY OF THE BOOK

All participating organizations will receive a copy of the book

BENEFITS FOR THE 10 FINALISTS:

DOCUMENT YOUR CASE

Have your lean initiatives, effort and successes captured, collected in a structured and consistent way, and promoted worldwide

GET WORLDWIDE EXPOSURE

Get your lean efforts published and disseminated

OBTAIN GLOBAL RECOGNITION

Differentiate your organization from the competition and be globally recognized

GET A TROPHY AND WINNER LOGO

Be rewarded in the global closing session and receive a glass trophy and digital winner logo which you can display in your documents and communications.

How it works ?

March 21st

AWARD CALL OPENS

Organizations submit their cases through our submission platform. The submission process consists of a series of questions and a self-assessment.

New date: June 15th

ASSESSMENT

Each organization completes an assessment for the category or categories selected.

Submit your expression of interest by May 31st to get access to the Self-Assessment for the category of your interest to become a finalist.

New date: June 30th

EVALUATION AND SELECTION

Each submission will undergo a review and evaluation process. An international judging panel of experts will be assembled from partnering organizations to select the top cases for each category that will compete as finalists for the awards.

July to November

CASE DOCUMENTATION

The selected submissions will be contacted to be documented, professionally designed and published in the book.

December

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

The awards ceremony will be held at a global event where the winners will be announced and awards will be provided by the organizing partners.

Entering the Lean Diamonds Awards is simple; identify the category or categories that you would like to join and subscribe!

The submissions for the Lean Diamonds Awards 2021 are now closed. The finalists will present their cases at the awarding ceremony in June 2022!

ASSESSMENTS

The Lean Transformation Model is a framework developed by the Lean Analytics Association which proposes 4 building blocks aiming to serve as a guide for organizations to develop their own roadmap to start or continue their lean journey towards achieving their envisioned True North.

As there is no unique secret formula that fits all organizations, the assessment consolidates different questions under the four building blocks and 12 enablers, to enable the judges to identify the very best cases that will constitute the finalists.

The selected cases will be documented and will be the ones to be audited in detail by the global experts that will be part of the panel.

MAIN STEPS

FINALISTS 2022

1. LEAN

Palladium Group
Barry Callebaut
Instituto Modelo Cardiológico
Certeso

2. LEAN
INNOVATION

Rolls Royce Aerospace
Atlas Copco
Interface
Jaguar Land Rover

3. LEAN
DIGITAL

Bridgestone
Yara

FINALISTS 2022

1. LEAN

Palladium Group
Barry Callebaut
Instituto Modelo Cardiológico
Certeso

2. LEAN
INNOVATION

Rolls Royce Aerospace
Atlas Copco
Interface
Jaguar Land Rover

3. LEAN
DIGITAL

Bridgestone
Yara

WINNERS 2022

Second place

First place

Third place

THE
LEAN DIAMONDS
AWARDS BOOK

PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

GET TO KNOW OUR TEAM

Dr. Myrna Flores

Jochen Vincke

Dr. Ahmed Al-Ashaab

Julie Duchi

Dr. Myrna Flores

Jochen Vincke

Dr. Ahmed
Al-Ashaab

Julie Duchi

DO YOU NEED MORE INFO?

We will be happy to provide you with more details and clarify any doubts. Do not hesitate to contact us!

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Do you have any question?

OPEN CALL

Extended date: June 15th is the deadline to submit your expression of interest and to complete the self-assessment for the category of your interest.

Lean Thinking

Lean Innovation

Lean Digital

Lean for Sustainability

ASSESS YOUR LEAN EFFORTS

JOIN A VIBRANT LEAN COMMUNITY

SHARE BEST PRACTICES

GET A COPY OF THE BOOK

DOCUMENT YOUR CASE

GET WORLDWIDE EXPOSURE

OBTAIN GLOBAL RECOGNITION

GET A TROPHY AND WINNER LOGO

March 21st

AWARD CALL OPENS

New date: June 15th

ASSESSMENT

New date: June 30th

EVALUATION AND SELECTION

July to November

CASE DOCUMENTATION

December

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

Entering the Lean Diamonds Awards is simple; identify the category or categories that you would like to join and subscribe!

The submissions for the Lean Diamonds Awards 2021 are now closed. The finalists will present their cases at the awarding ceremony in June 2022!

Award call opens

Self-Assessment deadline

Selection announcement

Cases documentation

Book edition

Awards Ceremony

1. LEAN

2. LEAN INNOVATION

3. LEAN DIGITAL

1. LEAN

2. LEAN INNOVATION

3. LEAN DIGITAL

Dr. Myrna Flores

Jochen Vincke

Dr. Ahmed Al-Ashaab

Julie Duchi

Dr. Myrna Flores

Jochen Vincke

Dr. AhmedAl-Ashaab

Julie Duchi

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