February 20th, 2017
The decision-maker, problem-solver, planner and manager.. Mike Notman (Managing Partner at Bourton Group LLP) – February 2017 Empowered teams have increased levels of responsibility and authority over the work they do, giving them the autonomy to plan and manage their work, make their own decisions and solve their own problems – responsibilities that are traditionally owned […]
February 7th, 2017
Kaizen and the benefit of immediate improvements Mike Horton (Senior Consultant at Bourton Group LLP) – February 2016 An accusation I often hear levelled at Continuous Improvement events is that while they end with a well-meaning action plan, all too often people who attended go back to their usual jobs and don’t find the time to […]
January 23rd, 2017
Taking FMEA Outside of the Factory Mike Horton (Consultant at Bourton Group LLP) – January 2017 What is FMEA? FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) is a risk analysis tool often associated with manufacturing processes, especially around the launch of new products. There’s no reason it can’t be used in a wide range of other […]
January 9th, 2017
Communication Ask any group of people what needs to be improved in the workplace and the chances are that most will say communication. People will always feel that they need to know more than they do about what is happening in the organisation. Sometimes its because they haven’t been told, and sometimes its because they […]
December 14th, 2016
Introducing Lean Construction – Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors CPD Initiative Arran McDonald (Senior Consultant at Bourton Group LLP) – December 2016 Bourton Group already support the UK Construction industry, helping to drive performance improvement against that Holy Trinity of measures; Cost, Quality and Delivery. However, we are always looking for opportunities to develop understanding […]
November 25th, 2016
High Performance and Reliability in Organisations. Can a Lean culture become as embedded as safety? Ken Powell, Partner Having been asked to present a short workshop session at this year’s LCI-UK Summit in Birmingham, I chose to challenge the audience on how we may be able to draw parallels with safety when trying to engage […]
November 15th, 2016
How to successfully engage people in a Lean environment, while considering the future challenges to the industry. Arran McDonald (Senior Consultant at Bourton Group LLP) – November 2016. For the 4th year running Bourton Group supported the LCI-UK Summit 2016. I was invited to deliver one of the small group sessions on the subject of […]
November 8th, 2016
More from the early days of Lean at St Andrews … ‘The Lean Way’ @BourtonGroup pic.twitter.com/jcDD3bb33k — St Andrews Lean (@LeanUni) November 7, 2016
October 19th, 2016
What size teams should we aim for? We have recently been involved in supporting a number of organisation design projects with our clients. Having done appraisals of customer needs, defined the culture they were aiming to embed, and optimised core business processes, the next key question was “what size teams should we aim for: what […]
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