February 11th, 2020
Measuring the Return on Investment of Continuous Improvement (CI) Much is written and published about when, where and how to implement Continuous Improvement (CI), less is said about why. To some extent, it could be that the reason why seems obvious – if you have a problem, the reason you use CI techniques is that […]
November 3rd, 2019
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 […]
September 10th, 2019
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 […]
August 27th, 2019
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 […]
August 14th, 2019
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 […]
August 1st, 2019
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 […]
June 18th, 2019
Lean Six Sigma Application From a Belt’s point of view, one of the great things about Lean Six Sigma (LSS) techniques is that they can be applied to any situation. You do not have to be an expert in the processes or even the industry in which you lead an improvement project; indeed, it can […]
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