Auditing is a great tool for any business improvement professional. It is also a tool that is often left as a ‘thing that Quality Managers do’. A quick impromptu...
I was working with a company today that are moving towards ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety) certification. A few months ago we couldn’t have even considered...
Lean occasionally gets a bad name How do you define Lean in your business? Is it something that you have spent time on determining what it means for your team and your...
I’ve just uploaded a new video to YouTube that shows how StreamLiner addresses three common Lean problems. These problems are: Having improvement plans everywhere. Not...
Lean is a great methodology for improving the performance of your business and its main objective is straightforward. Its objective is to increase the proportion of activity...
There are a lot of fears around continuous improvement (CI) that we, as managers, need to alleviate if we want full engagement from our teams. One of the main fears that I...
If you are challenged with improving a business process and don’t know where to begin, using an audit approach is a really good way to get started. Often audits are...
I spend the majority of my time delivering process improvement projects for a variety of clients; different sectors – similar operational challenges. A question I get asked...
5S is a commonly used improvement method. However, its effectiveness in many businesses has much to be desired. I personally like 5S very much. It is simple, it is quick to...
There are numerous practical and easy to use methods to improve business processes, some might say that there are too many! For many of us, choosing the right mix for our...