LCS Lean Accreditation for Organisations
For ORGANISATIONS wanting to issue industry recognised lean qualifications. LCS can accredit your current lean training system or help you implement one from scratch.
LCS Standard Accreditation
LCS SME Accreditation
2 year licence fee from…
£8,100 / €9,720
2 year licence fee…
£2,500 / €3,000
For organisations with their own lean training capability for staff (or planning one).
Designed for the needs and operating conditions start-ups or smaller companies.
For consultancies or training companies with a lean training capability for clients’ staff or for public programmes.
The accredited company delivers training aligned to the LCS framework, though does not administer knowledge tests.
Provides independent endorsement of lean training, indicating it is well managed, professionally delivered, technically sound and robust.
The LCS organises assessments via its on-line testing facility and provides LCS Certificates of Lean Competency to successful candidates.
For lean practitioners, the LCS offers a qualification which has high perceived value and external credibility.
Accredited companies pay a lower accreditation fee, plus a £80/€90 fee per test passed/certificate issued to learners.
Accredited organisations are licenced for two years and issue learners with Certificates of Lean Competency.
Accredited organisations are licenced for two years and can promote and market their SME lean accredited status.
Learners who receive LCS lean certification can register as Practitioner Members of the LCS community FREE OF CHARGE.
Learners who receive LCS lean certification can register as Practitioner Members of the LCS community FREE OF CHARGE.
Approved Prior Learning & Experience Lean Certification
For INDIVIDUALS and PRACTITIONERS with an established lean career and track record, but no formal lean qualifications. APLE certification recognises this capability.
LCS Level 2 Certification
LCS Level 3 Certification
Fee from…
£435 / €485
Fee from…
£3,400 / €3,910
Experienced lean practitioners can gain LCS lean certification at Level 2 through the APLE route.
Senior managers can gain LCS Level 3 lean certification via the APLE Level 3 Programme.
Provides recognition for lean knowledge gained from prior learning and achievements in employment.
Provides recognition for lean competency gained from prior learning and achievements in employment.
Level 2 LCS certification competence includes an in depth knowledge of lean principles and lean techniques, plus leadership capability.
Programme components includes three strategic case studies and an assignment on the development and future of lean thinking.
An application form detailing career history plus two case studies are submitted and evaluated.
Guidance and support is provided throughout the Programme by LCS Level 3 Advisors. Discounts and exemptions available.
Level 2 candidates may be required to undertake an on-line knowledge test as part of their application.
The Level 3 Programme can be undertaken on an individual or a group basis and takes around 9 months to complete.
LCS Level 2 certificate holders can register as Practitioner Members of the LCS community FREE OF CHARGE.
Level 3 advisory support is available from the LCS centrally or through LCS Level 3 accredited consultancies.
The Benefits of Accreditation
Lean accreditation has several benefits for both the organisation and employees.
It provides independent endorsement of an organisation’s lean training, proving it has demonstrated that it is well organised, professionally delivered, technically sound and robust. Lean accreditation from the LCS also indicates that it is committed to sustaining high training standards, maintaining the integrity of the system and continually improving.
For employees LCS accreditation offers a qualification which has high perceived value and external currency, a route map for continuous development and lean knowledge growth, as well as access to a unique community of like- minded practitioners.
Benefits: Key Points
- Helps engage staff in continuous improvement activities.
- Raises workforce lean capability
- Creates a standard across boundaries
- Is a conduit to link training with application
- Motivates employees
- External endorsement
- Enhances training system design
- Organisational lean knowledge development
- Cost effective
- Flexible and adaptable system
- Tried and tested
Industry standard lean qualifications, developed by LERC, Cardiff University
The LCS was created by the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University in 2005. It has become the definitive lean qualifications framework for the workplace that has broad applicability for a wide variety of CI training systems due to its eclectic and systems based definition of lean thinking.
Its strength lies in its principle and outcome based approach to lean competency levels, thus enabling organisations to develop bespoke lean training solutions that reflect own unique circumstances, processes and market environment.
It has been adopted and applied by a wide variety of private and public sector organisations globally.
