Your most valuable asset

Share:   You’d be amazed at how often I find when out and about, that there are no standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for carrying out […]

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Gain from productivity improvements

Share:   How to solve UK Productivity Crisis? There is a lot of talks currently about productivity or rather the lack of it in the UK. […]

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What is the difference between Six Sigma and lean?

Share: What is the difference between Six Sigma and lean? Let’s talk about Business Process Improvement (Lean/Six Sigma). Lean traditionally focuses on the elimination of […]

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How to build a high performing team?

Share:   How to build a high performing team? Are These the Essential Elements for a High-performing Business Culture? This series of questions was sparked […]

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How to foster a successful Lean culture

Share:   Lean culture is based on two main philosophies: Elimination of waste to maximise flow: Focus on the Value-added activity Remove as much Non-value […]

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What are the 5Ws and H questions?

Share:   Piper Alpha, an oil rig in the North Sea was destroyed in an explosion and resulting oil and gas fires over 30 years […]

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Value for money (VFM)

Share:   In today’s climate of austerity, most people are concerned with getting Value for Money (VFM), but what is this? This is usually in […]

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Design for Reliability

Share: Design for Reliability – the big opportunity is to perform Lean RCM at the design stage of a new plant Unlike in the aircraft industry […]

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All you need is Measurement & Understanding

Share:   H. James Harrington, a renowned quality guru and author stated that “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to […]

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Empowering Willing Workers: Great Long-term Results

Progress requires a willingness to embrace change. We all carry a certain reticence and reluctance to change, it forms part of our evolutionary make up, and its existence is responsible for the reasons that form certain judgments and stereotypes. The status quo is safe and has supported us so far, so part of us (even the most ardent change agent) will challenge change with the question: Why?

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