Five Career Limiting Mistakes Operations Leaders Should Avoid
Managing operations is tough, whether you are in manufacturing, service, distribution or resources. You are responsible for ensuring that the wheels of...
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Five Tips for Designing an Organisational Structure that Works
It would be nice to think that people in an organisation could just organise themselves and work out what they have to do. In very small businesses, this...
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Our Top Five Lean Leadership Videos
One of the big (and rather unsurprising) insights of the last decade is that success with Lean depends on the full engagement and support of leaders at...
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Role Of The Senior Leadership Team In Ensuring Lean Delivers Improved Culture And Results
Embracing lean thinking and making it part of your corporate DNA is a difficult challenge. Your Senior Leadership Team is key to achieving this. Start...
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Is Your Business Ready for Lean?
We see many businesses that are facing big problems. Often there are major problems with flow (both in the office and the factory), long lead times, poor...
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Does Industry 4.0 Mean the End of Lean?
In the last couple of years I have been asked a surprising question. “Does Industry 4.0 mean the end of Lean?” In manufacturing, we all love the “next...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 4 – Stopping Passive Acceptance
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem to have a form of entropy...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 3 – Overcoming Learned Helplessness.
Observing many companies, we often find four big cultural barriers – complacency, low expectations, learned helplessness, and passive acceptance. So...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 2 – Beating Low Expectations
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem to have a form of entropy...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 1 – Breaking through Complacency
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem to have a form of entropy...
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How to Recruit a Great Operations Manager
How do you recruit a great Operations Manager i? We talked to an experienced manufacturing recruiter and came up with some simple steps that will hopefully...
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What Makes a Great Operations Manager?
So what are the signs that you have hired a really effective Operations Manager or General Manager in your business?The challenge is that some of these...
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How to Avoid the Senior Management Revolving Door in Your Business
The “management revolving door” is a disaster for your business. Apart from the direct recruitment and severance costs of hiring and firing manager...
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Business Health Check; the three key indicators for your daily walk around
Active leadership is important to continuous improvement and a daily walk around to determine the health of your business can be very beneficial. We considered...
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Lean won’t work here? Try the “Quick Wins” Approach!
Is there a way for people not to “roll their eyes" when the “lean” word is out of the bag? Let’s start with the view that a “lean” business...
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Overcoming Reluctance when Implementing Lean Systems
Lean systems in many instances are implemented when company are faced with a challenge and have identified that new ways of doing business are required....
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How Effective Professional Development Builds Great Companies
So how are companies like Boeing and Toyota enable to find leaders who can lead the various parts of their business in a consistent way? The answer is...
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Developing Innovation Through Culture
Developing innovation needs the right company culture. Here we look at how we can improve our culture to create the innovation that is needed for us to...
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Seven Standards for Successful Leadership of Temporary Employees
In many industries, temporary employees provide an important and flexible element of the workforce. Many businesses seem to forget that temporary employees...
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Getting the Right Lean Resources for a Successful Lean Project
How do you resource a successful Lean transformation. There are lots of different approaches and different types of Lean resources available, but what...
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