In this episode Co-host David takes a turn in the guest seat as Rob interviews him about his recent MBA research on productivity in New Zealand's SMB sector.David's work, which has received attention from the National Business Review, dives deep into the challenges and ...
Don't Block Your Teams Ideas
February 27, 2025
I see this so often in the early stages of a business starting their Lean journey. The first steps are usually focused around engaging individuals and teams to start making improvements in their jobs, fixing those annoying little issues that are just plain frustrating. It's ...
Embarking on Your Lean Journey: Preparing Your Team for 2025
November 25, 2024
Efficiency, waste reduction, and continuous improvement – these are the hallmarks of Lean Thinking, a powerful methodology that can transform organisations. As 2025 approaches, many businesses are looking at ways they can prepare themselves for the improved market conditio...
Which Book do I recommend?
September 30, 2024
I am trying to improve my habit this year of reading more. It is part of my goal to improve my Leader Standard work. Putting time aside to improve myself so I can be a better consultant and challenge my own thinking. Here are a few favourites and surpr...
Lean Thinking is more than tools
August 13, 2024
Kia Ora!!
As a Kiwi business owner, you probably already know the value of a relaxed approach. But what if I told you that a sprinkle of lean thinking can actually turbocharge your customer experience, without all the stress? That's right, chuck out the fancy suits and clipboards – ...
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...
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...
Why Should We Use Stand Up Meetings
July 18, 2022
Stand UpsHuddlesTool BoxesDaily Accountability Meetings
The time when high performing meetings get together and meet for a brief amount of time to talk about all things performance. They are called all sorts of different names, personally I am not worried about that an...
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...
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