No time
The manager firefights all day: problem solving is pushed to "Monday" and never happens. NAVIGO+ gives a short daily rhythm — 10–15 minutes per track instead of hours of meetings.
Management operating system for small and mid-sized business
Stop running the company from a zoo of ERP, CRM and spreadsheets.One system: SDCA → PDCA.
NAVIGO+ links goals, standards and your team's daily rhythm into one cascade: stabilise the standard first, improve second. Without rolling out yet another system nobody ever opens.
A pilot starts in days, not in a quarter.
- 1 loop
- instead of scattered spreadsheets and chats
- SDCA before PDCA
- discipline first, improvement second
- Language of money
- hard numbers, not abstract jargon
Pain and payoff
Five reasons management fails in small and mid-sized business
And what NAVIGO+ does about each of them.
No people
Nobody owns business-system development full time, and hiring a methodologist is expensive. The platform takes the routine: it runs the cadences, collects the numbers and reminds who owes what.
No know-how
Lean management sounds great, but there is nobody to apply it. The system leads by the hand: it prompts the next step of the analysis and never lets you skip the standard.
No buy-in
People don't believe in yet another top-down initiative: "they invented something again, when do we work?". So engagement is built on the employee's own payoff: fewer emergencies, an answer to every idea, visible team progress.
Already a zoo
Instead of paper boards with peeling sticky notes, several chats and Excel files, ERP, LMS, BI, a Notion database and Word procedures in a drawer — one platform for running business development. Stop switching.
How it works
The cascade: Mission → Tracks → Cadences
Nothing hangs in the air: every shop-floor metric is tied to a company goal.
- 01
Mission
We state why the company exists and what counts as winning. That's the top of the cascade.
- 02
Tracks
The mission breaks down into value tracks: quality, delivery, cost, people, safety. Every track has an owner.
- 03
Cadences
Each track gets a rhythm: shift/day → week → month → quarter. The metric is visible at its own level, not buried in a general report.
- 04
Deviation analysis
A deviation opens an analysis: first check the standard and the training, only then look for causes.
Killer features
Five things your current system doesn't have
Not reporting for the sake of reporting, but mechanics that change behaviour at the workplace.
Headline feature
1-Click SOP
AI strips the noise out of a voice interview and workplace photos and assembles a draft standard right away. A human reviews and approves instead of drawing it from scratch.
Deviation analysis with an AI coach
The coach runs the 5 Whys and won't let you stop at "human error". It first checks the standard, the training and the current authorisation, and only then looks for the root cause.
Standards that update themselves
The outcome of the analysis instantly becomes the new version of the standard. Not a file in a folder, but a live rule with change history.
Kaizen inbox with an SLA
Employee ideas land in one flow with scoring (impact / easy / fast) and a response deadline. No suggestion sinks.
A positive dashboard
It shows not only red zones but also what the team has already stabilised. People see progress, not just complaints.
Gemba thermometer with escalation
It shows where the process is actually overheating and raises the issue to the next level if it isn't closed in time.
Editions
Three speeds of business-system development
Start with basic discipline and widen the scope as the team gets engaged.
SCOOTER
Getting started
- Lean manufacturing fundamentals
- Workplace organisation, 5S/6S
- Task and deviation management
- Kaizen suggestion system
CAR
In progress
- Everything in Scooter
- AI SOP builder from voice and photos
- Visual boards and stand-up templates
- 5 Whys tools and A3 reports
ROCKET
Full deployment
- Everything in Car
- Policy deployment, Hoshin Kanri, OKR
- Standardised leader routines
- Mentoring and skills matrices
Improvement potential calculator
Where exactly you lose money and people
Three flows: the value stream, the talent development stream and the engagement stream. Mark what fits — see the potential.
About the author
A methodology since 2003 — and the technology that accelerates it
Alexey Baranov
Lean manufacturing expert, author of the NAVIGO+ methodology. Photo taken at the Gemba, where value is created
A pioneer of lean manufacturing consulting and training in Russia, with dozens of lean transformation programmes and hundreds of lean projects delivered since 2003.
Founder of the first international lean consulting team in Russia — Orgprom Center — which saved its clients billions.
Editor and co-author of a bestseller on business-system development, author of terminology, translations and methods. A recognised ambassador of Lean / Kaizen / Hoshin Kanri in the Russian-speaking world, both at home and abroad.
Initiator of the national Labour Productivity programme, the Russian Congress of Productivity Leaders, the Russian Lean School and the Gastev Cup productivity leaders award.
Technology: AI plus 25 years of expertise
Pairing AI with a quarter century of practice means a working prototype for your case appears in hours, not in a sprint. The method is already proven — AI removes the time it takes to assemble and configure it.
Pilot access
A limited pilot is open right now
We don't parade other companies' case studies — join in so the system is shaped around your business pains and your production problems.
Now accepting participants
Join the pilot — we'll build your business pains and production problems into the system
Pilot participants get the service free for at least 1 month. The exact period depends on how actively you improve your project: the more kaizen ideas and deviation analyses you run, the longer you stay free.
Seats are limited — we take companies ready to keep a daily rhythm.
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Frequently asked questions
No jargon for the sake of jargon — only money, time and people.
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