The LeanBean Garage

The Garage

Where practitioners come to tinker, learn and sharpen the craft — practical guides to process mapping, Lean, SIPOC, design thinking, AI readiness and transformation. For practitioners, by practitioners.

Lean & process mapping

Make the work visible, then remove the waste.
How to make a swimlane diagram
A step-by-step guide to a clear process map, with a worked example.
The 8 wastes of Lean (TIMWOODS)
The eight wastes, explained with everyday examples.
What is value stream mapping?
See the whole end-to-end flow — and where the time really goes.
Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE)
The one number that shows how lean a process really is.

SIPOC & business process mapping

Agree the scope before you map the detail.
SIPOC explained
Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers — with an example.
How to map a business process
Levels of detail, the few symbols that matter, and a simple method.

Design thinking

Understand the people before fixing the process.
What is design thinking?
The five stages — Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test.
Design thinking for process improvement
Combining the human lens with Lean for changes that stick.

AI readiness

Decide, step by step, what a machine should do.
What is AI readiness?
How to assess a process for automation, step by step.
The CREATE framework
Six dimensions, four tiers — scoring steps for automation.

Transformation

Turn findings into a plan you can actually execute.
What is a transformation roadmap?
Sequencing change with NOW / NEXT / LATER.
From process map to transformation
How the map, the analysis and the plan connect.

Describe a process. Get the whole analysis.

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