“SMI’s design, development, and innovation exceeded my expectations!”

– Robert Valentino, CEO

About LeanCoach

Lean Coach was founded to help transform their clients management team(s) into the most analytical, agile, and action-oriented leaders they can be. Lean Coach, based on the principles of Lean Six Sigma is a problem solving platform that combines augmented intelligence with operational excellence strategies to help these team leaders increase the speed of delivery, improve quality and reduce costs.

Challenge

Robert’s vision was to bring Lean Six Sigma to a much larger audience. Confident that his knowledge could become an AI tool, Robert needed to partner with a development team that could custom design an AI experience that both had an intuitive customer facing interface, and a simple, yet sophisticated, information entry system that allowed the Lean Coach team to educate the AI engine.

The process

Lean Coach partnered with SMI to bring the vision of its founder, Robert Valentino, to fruition. Robert imagined a digital tool, using emerging augmented intelligence (AI) technology, informed by Lean methodology, could support the growing demand of managers and directors in need of critical thinking.

SMI uses agile and lean methodologies as a part of our design and development process, so our partnership started as an excellent fit.

SMI designed and developed both the Lean Coach AI Tool and the website that houses it. The tool’s intuitive interface leads users through a responsive question and answer process that is informed by their answers. The experience is both informative and educational.

To drive this experience, SMI created a custom AI platform that allows Robert and the Lean Coach team to easily inform the system with the needed smart content.

Outcome

The Lean Coach AI Tool is ready to launch. It has been extensively tested and the early users are ecstatic. Feedback has been extremely positive and both SMI and Lean Coach are confident and excited to be bringing this vision to light.

*2023 update: This project took place during 2020. As of today, Lean Coach is fully ready to be downloaded.