A major bank’s operations department was underperforming and lacked the management structure to control and track performance - driving excess cost and poor customer outcomes.
A major bank’s operations department had long been recognised as inefficient, but the leadership team lacked the management tools and visibility to understand where performance was being lost or how to address it systematically.
Without clear workflows, defined standard work, or meaningful KPIs, operational managers were making decisions based on experience rather than data. The result was excess spend, inconsistent output, and poor customer outcomes that were difficult to diagnose or correct.
A lean management system was designed and implemented over three months, covering the full suite of management controls: time allocation, workflow discipline, standard work definitions, KPIs, capacity management, and skills tracking.
The work was done directly with operational managers and team leaders - building capability in the organisation rather than creating dependency on external support. The system was designed to be owned and run by the team from day one.
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A banking operations function with capacity stretched by demand, where additional headcount was politically and commercially difficult. The team was working hard but not flowing, with significant rework, dispute, and exception handling consuming senior time.
Applied a Lean management system to the operations function - visible work, standard work, daily team huddles, and tier-escalation. Mapped the value stream end-to-end and addressed the largest waste categories systematically.
€600k of capacity released within three months, sustained as a structural improvement. Throughput improved without additional headcount, rework reduced, and senior time freed to focus on customer-facing work rather than exception management.
Three months from initial diagnostic through to embedded handover. The Lean management system was designed to be sustained by the internal operations leadership after the engagement, not maintained by Assured Velocity.
Daily visual management and tier-escalation created visibility of the issues that were silently consuming capacity. Once visible, the team prioritised them themselves - the operations leadership owned the improvement, not the consultant.