French5 Tips to Achieve Great Results from Your Presentations
If delivering a good presentation could mean the difference between you getting a new job, winning some work, influencing others to make a change or not, then take time to polish your presentation skills because a few basic skills and techniques can make all the difference between winning and losing.
Read moreHow Root Cause Analysis can help predict the future?
I am often asked “Is the right strategy to start applying root cause analysis at the beginning of an improvement journey and get some quick wins or wait until a thorough reliability strategy is in place to reduce the need for root cause analysis”… In other words, is it better to let the equipment fail and learn from that or put more effort into preventing the failures in the first place?
Read moreExploring Opportunities: Why your business is a ‘Factory’?
Although not all manufacturing businesses have had the vision to apply Lean Manufacturing processes, the big opportunity lies in non-manufacturing businesses who often don’t see the comparison between their operation and that of a highly productive automotive factory. Therefore, they are failing to learn and capitalise on the major benefits that can be achieved.
Read moreThe Recipe for a Successful Business Improvement Programme
Does an organisation need to change its culture in order to maximise change? When thinking objectively, the real question is ‘Is the organisation ready for the change program?’. Change is not necessary in many cases, however it is critical that the organisations culture is understood and assessed for its ability to accommodate the CI proposals.
Read moreTackling Resistance to Change – Is your organisation ready?
Millions of pounds are invested annually in change programmes – in process improvements, lean transformation and asset reliability – all in pursuit of cost reduction, improved efficiency and longer-term profitability.
But, before you embark on a costly, if necessary, change exercise you may want to find out to what extent the people in your organisation are ready for it. After all, they are the ones who need to understand the reasons behind your change effort so that they can embrace your ideas and implement them. To be sustainable, change needs to happen across all levels of an organisation. It is only by opening up lines of communication between practitioners and managers and between different functions that attitudes can change and new ways of working can be adopted.
Read moreBusiness Profitability – Start By Identifying Waste
Learning to see waste is probably one of the biggest challenges we face when starting to implement any improvement programme. If you take a minute during your work day and look at what is going on around you; everyone is busy working hard, moving around, working at computers, busy in meetings. But how much of that activity is adding value for the company?
Read moreReduce Customer Bills – Are You Staying Ahead of the Game?
EMS Cognito working with Welsh Water
EMS Cognito have been making waves in the water industry recently. In times of increasing pressure to reduce customer bills from OFWAT are you staying ahead of the game?
Read moreBest Practice Forum Event 2014
Best Practice Forum 2014
On March 6th 2014, EMS Cognito hosted the first annual Best Practice Forum which took place at Lancashire County Cricket Club, Old Trafford, Manchester. The one-day best practice conference brought together professionals from a variety of leading manufacturers and organisations in the UK and Europe and offered opportunity for discussion, networking and to share best practices
Read moreGuest Speakers Confirmed for BPF2014 Event
Share: We are very pleased to announce the full line up of guest speakers at this years Best Practice Forum event in March. Speakers include; […]
Read moreBest Practice Forum 2014: Registration Open!
Share: Registration is now open for #BPF2014: Making a Sustainable IMPACT through Operational Excellence. This one day forum will bring together delegates that are interested […]
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