Too much ‘Fat’ in your business?

Share:   It is a simple analogy, but one that really helps focus the mind. Is your business fit? Is it agile? Or does it […]

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Why quality comes before cost for any business

Share:   During a recent workshop I was facilitating an interesting discussion developed. The operations team were arguing that cost to a business would always […]

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Do you have the curiosity to improve?

Share: Observing small children as they learn about the world and the environment around them you realise they constantly challenge what they think they know. […]

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Time to talk variation: on a slow train home

Share:   I happened upon a very slow train ride home tonight and it got me thinking about variation. My first train had technical faults […]

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Plan for the year ahead

Share:   Do you know where you are headed in 2016? Can you say that where ever you work in an organisation you know the […]

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Zero Waste vs Throw Away society

Share:     What do we have reverence to look after as well as we should these days? I can give you a few examples […]

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Great companies grow strong roots

Share:   It’s not the tallest tree that survives but that which has the strongest roots. A similarity can be drawn to organisations. The strong […]

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The Chalk Circle

Share:   The power of Gemba is easy to overlook or to forget about, or simply not have confidence when we watch out busy ant […]

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Can you see the opportunity? Value stream map

Share:     When was the last time you looked up from the detail? Where ever we work in an organisation we focus on the […]

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Why change fails?

Share:     We’ve all heard the phrase “the only person you can change is yourself” Yet when it comes to making a business change […]

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