How to put your improvement plan into action
April 23, 2023
The steps for action based leadership
Turning talk into actionThe previous blogs in 2023 have been all about the preparation and engagement of the idea of Operational Excellence. It has been about engaging the team around understanding what it is, adding in some of the theory and what it could look like fo...
The Process to Start an Operational Excellence Journey
January 30, 2023
It is one thing to understand what Operational Excellence is, it is an entirely different challenge to take the leap of faith and bring this into your business and begin the journey. After all, the failure rate in this space is very high. The percentage of businesses t...
Is Lean Just A Bunch Of Tools?
September 15, 2022
When I was just starting out as a consultant, doing my own thing I was at a family wedding chatting to a friend who was asking me what I was up to. After explaining my new business, the reply was “Oh yes Lean, but you know there are many other approaches”.
I ...
How do you start a Lean Thinking journey
August 9, 2022
My experience with companies motivation to start a Lean journey is one of two reasons:They are smashing it and are starting to get some speed wobbles so they are needing to bring back some structure and organisation back into the workplace.They have realised after one too ma...
Don't Make Your Business Complicated
June 27, 2022
We humans are funny creatures. For some crazy reason we love to try and make things - processes, work, tasks harder than they really need to be.
I am making this comment as I reflect on conversations and observations I have had with many different businesses recently. ...
Creating a Learning Environment
April 20, 2022
Making mistakes is awesome, Learning is even better!
Parents around the world understand how important it is for their children to learn through making mistakes. We all did it learning to walk, understand calculus (I’m still struggling with this) or driving! No...
At the heart of Lean and continuous improvement is the development and growth of its people. Creating an environment where team members develop the skills to improve the job and also improve themselves. It is all about establishing a positive culture that revolve...
How to Measure the Performance of your Business
February 21, 2022
AKA What makes a Smart SME Episode 3.A top performing sports team measures its performance. In the elite world this goes to the individual performance measures, the errors made by the team, what part of the game was better or worse, the list literally goes on.
If this ...
What is a Smart SME?
January 18, 2022
Two things are going to dominate my conversation during 2022. For me they come hand in hand.
The first and main theme is Smart SMEs (small & medium businesses). Personally I don’t like the term 'enterprises' but hey the acronym sticks!!
In New...
What is Lean Visual Management?
December 13, 2021
Visual Management in the workplace.
This is a term used many, many times during a Lean journey. It is used so much that it can also become white noise, a cliche term. So if it is used a lot, what does it actually mean? What does it look like?
The answer, like man...
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