Ari Väisänen Send E-Mail Ari, member of the Lean team within Innotiimi-ICG, has the nickname Lean Navigator for a good reason: He guides and supports organizations in their Lean transformation. Ari’s Lean thinking is a reflection of his strong industrial background – he has vast experience in the automotive and power transmission industry. Ari works inside organizations as a developer of Lean management and operational excellence processes. His goal is to create success factors for organizations in order for them to achieve their target states while navigating on the safe and solid ground of their Lean path. Ari knows how to combine common industry specific perspectives into strong everyday customer values. He discovers where the typical pitfalls are hidden and how those problems can be solved with the people involved. For Ari, Lean is a holistic approach to customer value creation. His passion for the Lean journey is mainly focused on its various development techniques. "Improving the quality of processes is engineering knowledge at its best, when creating a sustainable foundation for tiny successful development steps," Ari crystallizes his thoughts. He believes that for the growth of emerging organizations, it is essential to know the processes and related functions, to enable conditions for generating customer value. Expertise Lean Six Sigma Expert & SCRUM Master EFQM Assessor & Process Auditor Creating and enabling flow for operational value chains and quality management development Practical Lean teams’ coaching and guidance Solution business modeling and realization Past Projects SEW-Eurodrive Sisu Axles Inc. Algol Technics HUBER Packaging KONE Industrial Konecranes HELLA Millog Plastep OP-Palvelut Good to Know Lived with his family many years in P.R. China Ari is passionate about coaching youth sports teams, e.g. ringette and floorball He has coached sports at a private school in the USA: soccer and lacrosse. His holiday trips are often related to ice hockey and therefore spent on the East Coast of the USA. Would you like to get in touch with Ari? Contact