Operations Performance Consultant

Clément Boniol is passionate about the world of operations and its challenges. Having worked on industrial issues for various French companies, he brings a communicator’s eye to a field that is both complex and essential to every business. With iObeya, he shares what he’s learned about operations, daily management, and continuous improvement, to help others in the field build their own knowledge.
Clément Boniol, author of Lean Corners
9 minute read

Obeya Methodology: the Complete Guide

What is an Obeya room? Discover its origin, the 6 elements of an effective room, daily/weekly rituals, and physical vs. digital approaches.

7 minute read

Cost of Inaction in Manufacturing: What One Year of Delay Costs You

Discover how much a year of inaction really costs manufacturers, through 5 hidden cost categories and a framework to calculate your own numbers.

6 minute read

Hoshin Kanri: Connecting Strategy to the Shop Floor

Discover how Hoshin Kanri connects annual strategy to daily shop-floor actions, through objective cascading, catchball, and visual management.

7 minute read

How to Calculate OEE and Use It to Justify a Digital Investment

Learn how to calculate OEE step by step, compare your score to sector benchmarks, and turn an OEE gain into a quantified digital investment case.

10 minute read

What Is Operational Excellence? The Complete Guide

Operational excellence explained: definition, 5 pillars, real plant examples, key management rituals, and a 4-step approach to build your own OpEx program.

10 minute read

Daily Management System (DMS): the Complete Guide

Definition, core components, escalation tiers, and a 6-step deployment method. Everything you need to know about DMS to drive manufacturing performance.

6 minutes

Improving Service Processes: The Right Lean Tools at the Right Time

Learn how Lean Office tools such as VSM, PDCA, A3, Swimlane, and Visual Management help improve service processes and operational performance.

6 minutes

Driving Performance with Lean Office

Discover how Lean Office improves service performance by identifying waste and applying Lean principles. Part 1 of a two-part series.

8 minutes

The Daily Management Mini Guide

Discover the Daily Management Mini Guide: QCD, SQCDP dashboards, 5/15/30 routines, and Obeya to drive performance and alignment every day.

5 minutes

Operational Excellence: A Strategic Must-Have?

Discover why operational excellence has become a strategic imperative to improve business agility, resilience and long-term performance.

3 minutes

Daily Management System (DMS): A Guide to Operational Performance

Learn how a Daily Management System (DMS) improves operational performance through visual management, structured routines, and digital collaboration.

6 minutes

Operational excellence – 4 pillars to know, inspired by Toyota

Discover the 4 pillars of operational excellence inspired by Toyota: philosophy, process, people and problem solving for continuous improvement.

5 minutes

No Lean Transformation Without Cultural Transformation

Lean tools alone don’t transform organizations. Discover why cultural transformation is the key to sustainable Lean success.

5 minutes

The Origins of TPS

Discover the origins of the Toyota Production System: from Ford’s Model T to Toyota’s Just-In-Time and the rise of Lean Thinking.

5 minutes

How Do You Know If an Obeya Is Working?

Learn how to recognize an effective Obeya, the key signs it works, and how it supports alignment and better decision-making.

5 minutes

Digitalized Management Routines for SMBs: Concrete Business Benefits

Learn how digitalized management routines help SMBs gain agility, improve action tracking, and align teams around real-time data.

5 minutes

3 factors for a successful improvement project

What makes a Kaizen workshop successful? Leadership commitment, clear objectives, and effective time management explained.

6 minutes

Why Conduct a Gemba Walk? A Pillar of Lean Management and Kaizen

Discover why Gemba walks are essential in Lean management. Learn how Gemba drives Kaizen, leadership, and continuous improvement.

8 minutes

Operational Excellence: The Foundations for Improving Efficiency in SMBs

Learn how SMBs can improve efficiency with Lean, OKRs, process mapping and performance routines in a practical 10-step guide.

5 minutes

How to properly prepare for the start of the year: Kaizen, Hoshin, setting priorities

Learn how Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, OKRs and A3 thinking help align strategy, set priorities and start the year with clarity.

5 minutes

Why Lean Is the Foundation of Operational Excellence

Discover why Lean management is the foundation of operational excellence, driving continuous improvement, team empowerment, and customer value

5 minutes

What Is an Obeya in the Era of Industry 4.0?

Discover what an Obeya is, why digitalizing it matters in Industry 4.0, and how it strengthens alignment, collaboration, and Lean performance.

6 minutes

How (and Why) Should You Digitalize Your Short Interval Meetings (SIMs)?

Learn why and how to digitalize SIMs to boost performance, improve data reliability, and streamline multi-level operational management.

4 minutes

Deploying Your Operational Excellence System Through Visual Management

Learn how visual management and Obeya systems enhance alignment, data visibility, and operational excellence across all organizational levels.

7 minutes

The Complete Guide to Choosing Your Problem-Solving Method

Discover how to choose the best problem-solving method : PDCA, A3, QRQC, DMAIC and the tools that support continuous improvement.

6 minutes

Pillard of Operational Excellence

Discover the definition of Operational Excellence and its 5 pillars. Learn how digital Lean with iObeya drives sustainable performance and engagement.

8 minutes

The 10 Key Indicators to Track in Your Warehouse to Achieve Operational Excellence

Discover the 10 essential KPIs to measure and improve warehouse performance while engaging teams in operational excellence.

5 minutes

Industry 4.0 – A New Era for Operational Excellence

Discover how Industry 4.0 reshapes production, digital visual management, and performance to accelerate operational excellence

5 minutes

VUCA World and Operational Excellence

In a fast-changing VUCA world, Operational Excellence provides stability, agility, and continuous improvement for lasting business success.

6 minutes

Lean Diagnosis: How to Move Your Organization Forward?

Discover the Lean maturity model in 5 levels to assess your organization, identify its current state, and find practical levers to progress toward a sustainable Lean culture.

6 minutes to read

KPI Tree: How to structure your indicators for better performance management?

Learn what a KPI Tree is and how to use it to connect strategic objectives, key success factors and KPIs. Discover examples, benefits and steps to improve performance management.

6 minutes

How to Improve Operational Visibility with a Tiered Daily

Discover how a Tiered Daily Management System boosts visibility, speeds up decisions, and drives alignment across all levels of your organization.

6 minutes.

Should You Digitalize Your Visual Management and Obeya?

Learn why and how to digitize visual management and Obeya to overcome paper limits, support hybrid teams, and drive operational excellence.

8 minutes

How to structure your QRQC for quick problem resolution

Discover QRQC, an agile method for quickly detecting, analysing and resolving problems in industrial environments. Quality and responsiveness guaranteed.

7 minutes

Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges and Strategies for a Highly Regulated Sector

Learn how operational excellence helps the pharma industry innovate, reduce costs, and stay competitive despite constraints.

6 minutes

The Challenges of Operational Excellence in the Energy Sector

Learn how operational excellence boosts performance and reliability in the energy sector in the face of current and future challenges.

7 minutes

30 questions to choose a collaborative solution adapted to your needs

Discover 30 key questions to select the ideal collaborative solution and optimize your project management and team performance.

8 minutes

3 types of Obeya: Strategic, Production and Office

Learn about the three types of Obeya – Strategic, Production, and Office – and how to use them to improve collaboration and performance.

8 minutes

Obeya: How to improve your Short Interval Management (SIM)

Find out how the Obeya improves your Short Interval Control (SIC) by making your meetings smoother, more structured and more efficient.

10 minutes

What are the challenges of operational excellence in logistics?

Discover the challenges of operational excellence in logistics: cost optimization, customer satisfaction, digitalization and resilience of supply chains.

8 minutes

iObeya vs. Excel: Visualize your data for better decision making

Learn how iObeya and Excel complement each other to improve data management, collaboration, and accelerate business decision-making.

8 minutes

How do enterprise-specific production systems (XPS) lead to operational excellence?

Learn how Specific Production Systems (XPS) optimize industrial performance and boost business competitiveness.

9 minutes

Empowering Teams Through Problem-Solving: 5 Best practices

Learn 5 essential practices to build problem-solving skills, tackle challenges, and empower teams to solve problems effectively and methodically.

10 minutes

Short Interval Animations: Impactful Lean Method

Learn how to implement effective short interval animations to enhance communication, boost performance, and drive continuous improvement.

8 minutes

Digitize Hoshin Kanri for More Effective Strategic Planning

Learn how digitalization is improving the Hoshin Kanri method, strengthening strategic alignment and operational efficiency in the enterprise.

7 minutes

How to implement a visual management board

Discover how to implement effective visual management by following key steps to optimize communication and performance in the company.

6 minutes

Just-in-Time: A Practical Guide for Industry Professionals

Discover Just-in-Time and learn how to synchronize production and demand to reduce inventory and improve the responsiveness of production lines.

6 minutes

How to align strategy and operation with Hoshin Kanri

The Hoshin Kanri Method aligns strategy and operations to turn your company's vision into concrete, measurable actions

6 minutes

Why digitize your Gemba Walk?

Find out why digitizing the Gemba Walk improves collaboration, data accessibility, and team responsiveness for better efficiency.

5 minutes

From Lean Manufacturing to Lean Enterprise: A transformation towards extended operational excellence

Explore how the transition from Lean Manufacturing to Lean Enterprise enables process optimization to achieve overall operational excellence.

7 minutes

How to Use Lean for New Product Development

Learn how iObeya optimizes your Lean Product Development to innovate quickly, reduce costs, and improve team collaboration.

8 minutes

How can we gain efficiency thanks to the “Lean Supply Chain”?

Learn how Lean Supply Chain reduces waste, improves product quality, and optimizes workflows across the supply chain.

6 minutes

4 Effective Problem-Solving Methods to Optimize Your Processes

Discover 4 problem-solving methods to identify root causes and improve your processes: PDCA, 5 Whys, 8D and DMAIC.

7 minutes

How to develop an efficient and safe production workshop with the Shopfloor Management System

Optimize the efficiency, communication, and safety of your workshop with Shopfloor Management and its visual production management tools.

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