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Most companies working with Lean state their aims as changing the culture of the business to one where continuous improvement is part of everyday life at all levels, or something to that affect. I’ve worked with many organisations across many sectors […]
June 06, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership
I’ve been preparing for a talk I’m giving this Friday and struggling to clarify what my “take away” is. Most speakers say that we should be clear about what we want people to get from the talk and in many […]
April 05, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management, Systems Thinking
It has been written about repeatedly, people talk about it, some go as far as doing something about it. But too often we (the lean community) focus more on how to use the tools than the culture we want to engender when it […]
March 30, 2016 - (0) comments - Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Lean, Management
Anyone who has worked in Lean or anywhere near it will be familiar with the seven wastes; Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over-production, Over-processing & Defects (TIMWOOD). One of the things that I see people forget or ignore is the fact […]
November 25, 2014 - (0) comments - Change, Lean, Systems Thinking, Waste
I’m currently working with a major airline. Over the weekend there was an issue where one of the hanger doors wouldn’t open & the technical team had to jump through quite a few hoops to get the aircraft out for […]
November 04, 2014 - (0) comments - Dynamic Organisations, Solving Problems
I was in a discussion today regarding what most people would consider Stephen Covey’s Circle of Influence (the concept at least). I was told that it was actually Peter Drucker’s concept. That they had for some reason agreed to allow […]
October 07, 2014 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leadership, Lean, PDCA
I went to a networking event last week & the speaker’s topic was innovation. I enjoyed the talk & there were some solid messages within it. However, there was one comment/remark that I took umbrage to, the guy said “innovation […]
February 11, 2014 - 2 Comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Lessons Learned, Make Problems Obvious, Solving Problems, Systems Thinking
I wrote last week about the 3 root causes of pretty much all problems; lack of a standard, a standard that exists but is not followed and a standard that exists & is followed, but is insufficient in detail to […]
December 10, 2013 - (0) comments - Leadership, Learning, Make Problems Obvious, Process Confirmation, Standards
We’ve probably all seen them; the managers who like to “drive the desk”. The ones who think they know what’s going on without ever having to get out to the Gemba (shop floor – where work actually happens) – Go […]
November 12, 2013 - (0) comments - Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Make Problems Obvious, Solving Problems, Visual Management
Robert Peston is currently presenting a programme on shopping in which he looks at, amongst other stores, Tesco. The founder of Tesco Jack Cohen started out selling fish paste out of barrels in a London market. His business grew to […]
September 10, 2013 - (0) comments - Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Lean
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