January 16th, 2018
The Productivity Puzzle Productivity Mike Horton (Consultant at Bourton Group LLP) – January 2018 There has been much talk in the media lately about productivity. It is increasingly being seen as the key to improving the UK’s economic outlook. The government recently announced £10m of funding to create The Productivity Leadership Group (PLG), a […]
November 21st, 2017
The Well from Hell – Learning from the infamous Deepwater Horizon disaster: Article 2 HROs and Balancing Production & Prevention High Reliability Organisations (HROs) possess traits that enable them to balance production and prevention pressures in an effective, mindful way. From studies by Wieck and Sutcliffe – Managing the unexpected, these traits include: Preoccupation with […]
November 14th, 2017
The Fishbone Analysis enables you to gain a better understanding of the root causes of problems. Fishbone Analysis – What is it? Fishbone Analysis is simply a way of identifying a wide variety of potential causes of a problem and grouping them together in categories. It is also sometimes called Cause and Effect Analysis or […]
October 17th, 2017
Bourton Group LLP are delighted to announce that Ken Powell has been appointed as a Partner. Ken has been with Bourton Group as a Senior Consultant for the last three years and his move to the position of Partner recognises the work that he has been carrying out leading major improvement projects with clients and […]
October 3rd, 2017
LCI-UK Summit 2017 Pre-Summit Dinner – Wednesday 25th October 2017 The Pre-Summit Dinner has always been an important part of the LCI-UK Summit. Once again we will be hosting a table and if you’re going to the Summit, we would like to invite you to join us for dinner, as our guest. As previous hosts, […]
Mike Notman, Managing Partner Some time ago I took it upon myself to trace family members who had served in the 1st World War and discovered that one relative was buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery near Poperinge, Flanders. More recently, accompanied by my daughter, I decided to visit and it was here we experienced at […]
September 19th, 2017
Creating a High Reliability Organisation (HRO): Article 1 Don’t forget to be afraid: how to balance production and prevention to avoid accidents In a world where commercial pressures demand faster, better, cheaper and cleaner, how do the best organisations maintain their composure and retain a focus on what could go wrong at any time when […]
August 9th, 2017
Applying Lean to the complete end to end Value Chain Arran McDonald, Senior Consultant – August 2017 Deploying Lean in the form of a Lean Improvement Project is a proven way in which businesses can improve both processes and business performance. These can be: Large scale Improvement interventions focused on significant Cross- Business Processes (Lean […]
August 2nd, 2017
Squeezing extra performance from teams Lesley Fleming (Senior Consultant at Bourton Group – August 2017) 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 […]
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