Digital Lean Management

AI applied to Lean Management

We digitalise, automate and augment with AI the Lean Ways of Working in Microsoft 365

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Automation, Digital & AI can take your Lean Initiatives to the next level and transform your Management System.

Discover how to make the most of your Microsoft 365 applications to bring your operations to the next level.

We have developed standard applications that you can download from the Microsoft Store and we are also available for custom consulting engagements to help you design and deploy a Digital Lean Management System.

How we help

We can help you design and deploy a Digital Lean Management System augmented by AI in Microsoft 365

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Services, Manufacturing and Mining

What does Digital Lean Management look like in practice?

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Watch the videoManufacturing

Interested in how Digital Lean Management looks like in Manufacturing?

Learn about how Microsoft 365 tools can connect your factory floor so workers can resolve issues faster and digitize your processes to meet the business’s fluctuating needs.

Watch the videoMining

Interested in how Digital Lean Management looks like in Mining?

Learn about how Microsoft 365 tools can help you modernise your ways of working in Mining, replacing your old manual tools with digitalised Microsoft tools, that you own already…

Empower your people

We provide Digital Lean Management Tools to empower your people.

The key to the culture change was individual empowerment.
Satya Nadella · CEO Microsoft
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates · Microsoft Founder & Philanthropist
Frontier Lean book plus AI author

FRONTIER LEANThe AI-Augmented Lean Enterprise in Microsoft 365

by Fred Brouillet

Frontier Lean is a practical guide to embedding Lean Management inside Microsoft 365 and the AI era.

It delivers a disciplined operating model for Copilot, digital workflows, and continuous improvement supported by a dedicated AI Companion that enables deeper application and structured coaching based on the book itself.

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System 01

Digital Lean Operating System

A repeatable system for visibility, cadence, problem-solving, standards, automation, AI augmentation, and capability development.

Sequence 02

Frontier Lean Roadmap

Stabilise to Digitise to Automate to Augment to Optimise.

Experience 03

AI Author Access

Ask questions to the AI author clone, grounded in the Frontier Lean Book.

Stabilise to Digitise to Automate to Augment to Optimise

A disciplined sequence to avoid automating broken processes and deploying AI without a learning system.

1Stabilise
2Digitise
3Automate
4Augment
5Optimise
Why this matters

AI Will Not Replace Lean. But AI-Augmented Lean Will Replace Traditional Lean.

The organisations that win will not be those with the most AI tools. They will be those with the most disciplined operating model. Frontier Lean is that model.

Podcast, YouTube and platform

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Podcast

The Sensei Room

Where experts meet their AI twin. In each episode, a guest sits down with an AI version of themselves, trained on their books, talks and ideas.

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YouTube

Our YouTube channel

Practical digital Lean tutorials with Microsoft 365: build a Skills Matrix in Power BI and Power Automate, create performance scorecards, and put Copilot agents to work for continuous improvement.

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Platform

Learning Frontier

Our AI avatar learning platform: chat, voice call or video call with digital twins of experts and authors, trained on their published works.

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From Excel to AI: an OPEX maturity assessment moving from Excel into Microsoft 365
LinkedIn webinars

From Excel to AI: Reinventing OPEX Maturity Assessment

A live demo and discussion on how AI is transforming Operational Excellence: the evolution of maturity assessments, from static Excel templates to intelligent, interactive tools powered by AI and embedded directly in Microsoft 365.

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Digital Lean Management blog
Blog

Explore our latest Blog Posts

We are pioneering digitalising Lean in Microsoft 365 and augmenting it with AI. You can find out more in our Blog Posts & Articles.

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