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November 21st, 2019

Coaching and training versus leading projects

When introducing myself at the start of a training course and explaining my current role, I tend to say my time splits into around 30% training or coaching and 70% leading projects. Shamefully for someone who regularly delivers whole modules on the importance of data integrity, I’ve never actually checked if that’s true, but it […]

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November 3rd, 2019

You can’t walk into the future looking backwards

A few weeks ago, I met with the CEO of a European based Global business and as we opened the conversation, he asked me for my take on the current situation in the UK.  Thinking about it, I realised that the current situation had been going on for quite some time and that we’ve been […]

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October 22nd, 2019

Applying the SMED Methodology in Manufacturing

In recent times so much Lean Six Sigma application has centred around the benefits that can be gained in transactional working environments.  That’s why it’s always great to have the opportunity to use Lean techniques in the place they were originally developed – on the factory floor. Earlier this year Bourton Group led a project […]

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October 9th, 2019

Lean Construction: Evolution or Revolution? Shaking it up.

Evolution or Revolution.  Shaking it up. This year’s LCI-UK summit is opened by Rob Walley, Senior Partner here at Bourton Group LLP, and Board Director with the Lean Construction Institute UK. The 2019 Lean Construction Summit “Lean Construction: Evolution or Revolution? Shaking it up” aims to address the fundamental questions facing the Construction Industry, from […]

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October 2nd, 2019

Scared by Six Sigma? Don’t be.

Recently I assisted with a Robust Design for Analysts training course run by Bourton Group at one of the UK’s leading manufacturing companies. It was a useful reminder of Process Improvement’s vast scale of complexity. I spend most of my working life training, coaching and leading projects at companies which have massive amounts to gain […]

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September 10th, 2019

The devil in the detail

The devil in the detail: why transformation efforts fail Having a great vision and plan is important, but the fact remains most transformation efforts will fail at the execution stage! The most common reason for this is that leaders often underestimate the magnitude of change.  Change leaders can misjudge the importance of engaging the entire […]

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August 27th, 2019

Training alone is not enough

While, many companies start the process excellence journey with a bang many will start but fail to deliver the expected benefits or even worse never take off at all! Our article looks at some of the common causes of failure along with the characteristics of our approach to mitigating these and to developing an effective […]

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August 14th, 2019

Stakeholder Analysis

How Stakeholder Analysis can help you to understand the views of stakeholders with respect to change. So what is it? Stakeholder Analysis provides a way for the project team to predict the views of the stakeholders with respect to the change. A stakeholder is anyone who: Owns the process/es Controls critical resources within the processes […]

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August 1st, 2019

Overcoming a reluctance to buy-in to Lean

All Lean practitioners know that success with improvement projects will only come if they have the buy-in of the people involved. When you make changes to processes, if the people involved do not understand why those changes are happening, disagree with the need for the change, or believe the wrong changes are being made, then […]

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