July 20th, 2022
Applying Lean to your Business Improvement Projects is a proven way in which your business can achieve operational improvement. Lean approaches are proven to streamline processes and eliminate wasteful activity, improve efficiency and cut operational costs. Also, Lean will equip your people with techniques for continuous improvement that will improve overall business performance. Business improvement […]
May 31st, 2022
It’s not unusual for businesses to have key members of staff retiring at the same time. It’s therefore crucial that businesses develop a strategy for succession planning to ensure that key knowledge and experience are not lost. Effective Knowledge Transfer for your Business Our article is intended to outline some of the actions an organisation can […]
February 28th, 2022
Bourton Group has been helping to make businesses better for over five decades, and during this time, we’ve seen many trends come and go. However, irrespective of the business sector and the general direction of change, the following three objectives have continuously remained high on most business performance improvement agendas: We want real, tangible business […]
February 2nd, 2022
For the fourth year running we’ve been acknowledged by our clients and peers for our consultancy work within the Construction & Infrastructure sector of the Financial Times UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2022 report. We are over the moon that our Operational Management Consultancy has been listed alongside some of the UK’s most well-known consultancy firms. […]
February 1st, 2022
I was recently asked my opinion on a trend that seems to be emerging from the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on businesses and organisations. The trend seems to suggest that people are ‘re-imagining’ not only their approach to work, for example, hybrid working, but also who they may be working for. It’s fair to […]
December 1st, 2021
Over the last few months as things have begun to return to ‘normal’ Bourton Group has embarked on some very rigorous 5S activity. Like a lot of you, while our operations were forced into ‘working from home’ – we realised that there were quite a few items that were no longer necessary to our more […]
October 19th, 2021
Whilst reading a great article in Forbes during a recent flight to Portugal, The Pandemic has changed Business Structures: There’s No Going Back. I was struck by the comment from Brian Chesky, founder, and CEO of Airbnb, who rightly says, “travel will never go back to what it was before the pandemic.” The article also […]
September 6th, 2021
Developing Management Capability in Others Much attention is paid to the difference between leading and managing, and the concept of ‘leadership’, quite rightly, gets considerable airtime in the learning and development arena. Never before has demonstrating the skills associated with capturing and engaging the commitment of people been more expected or more challenging. And, whilst […]
August 4th, 2021
Squeezing extra performance from teams Consistent and sustainable high performance from teams has never been achieved by simply instructing them to work better harder and faster, and issuing veiled threats if they don’t. As with any social group, the behaviour of work teams is the outcome of a complex mix of situation, opportunity and individual […]
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