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Your design and development framework needs to be considered the brains of the operation
18 July 2023 16:00 Leave your thoughtsCreating accelerated design and development pathways for more successful product and service launches.
Developing a new product or service? Do not underestimate the need for structured design
10 July 2023 16:39 Leave your thoughtsCreating accelerated design and development pathways for more successful product and service launches.
Optimisation, Innovation, and the ‘System’
14 March 2023 10:20 Leave your thoughtsBuilding networks for achieving greater things.
What if your quest for excellence started from home, instead of the boardroom?
1 February 2023 10:06 Leave your thoughtsWe often speak about optimising our business operations, even mentioning the route towards ‘excellence’ as being integral within our strategy. But what does this really mean…in real terms? In this article we take a look at possibly a tangible parallel: a convert at home.
Creating the future for your business
26 December 2022 15:07 Leave your thoughtsSecuring sustainable longevity of our businesses may be more achievable if we contemplate the agility-approach adorning younger company structures.
How does Santa really do it?
15 December 2022 11:53 Leave your thoughtsSanta’s Elf Workshop must really be an operational excellence case study!
Horizontal or vertical – which way do we go for Lean change?
15 November 2022 9:30 Leave your thoughtsPicking up from our last article, I have now started discussing the actual execution of a Lean change, by identifying some initial steps that may be worth consideration.
The only way forward: Adapt, evolve, build your team & define your organisation
16 October 2022 10:57 Leave your thoughtsAfter delving deep into the eight wastes of Lean, we now discuss some considerations that need to be taken when contemplating the execution of Lean initiatives within our organisation.
Let your people shine: They likely have all the talent and ingenuity you need
3 September 2022 9:55 Leave your thoughtsIt’s time to discover the eighth and last type of Lean Waste within this series that has specifically focused on addressing non-value adding elements within our organisational activity. This article shall be associated with the waste derived from unutilised human potential, talent, experience and skill.
‘Hold on, I’ll be with you in a minute!’ implies you have decided to waste one minute of my life
30 July 2022 9:55 Leave your thoughtsOne of the principles from a Lean philosophy is flow. This implies that if the flow is interrupted, we are creating waste. Waiting means flow interruption. Therefore, the understanding that waiting is wasteful holds.
Freeze! Here’s why you should get yourself into a more ergonomic setup to get your tasks done
25 June 2022 17:55 Leave your thoughtsMovement is not so beneficial when it brings on fatigue, strain, stress, delays, errors and costs to humans, machinery and/or equipment. Here, I address the Lean Waste associated with unnecessary movement.
Ask yourself: Do I really need to come to your meeting?
21 May 2022 17:55 Leave your thoughtsHave we not all experienced the amount of effort, time and costs saved, not to mention the critical reduction on environmental damage, from our various remote collaboration experiences?
Inventory is a fact of life, but could it be damaging your business?
15 April 2022 9:55 Leave your thoughtsIt can possibly feel safer to have a good amount of stock around us. But do we really appreciate the various adverse impacts brought about by holding on to unnecessary inventory? Maintaining the right balance is no easy feat!
Analysing more waste in your business: Creating more than is needed, out of sync from demand
10 March 2022 11:11 Leave your thoughtsThe next roadblock to be discussed through this series is the waste generated when we make more than is needed, or sooner than required: generally termed over-production within a Lean Waste context.
A look at wasteful over-processing: Protecting the unbreakable?
23 January 2022 18:00 Leave your thoughtsNext in the line-up of articles discussing non-value-adding activities shall be the Lean waste referred to as ‘over-processing’, yet another roadblock at which several business activities might fall victim to.
