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The aim of this site is to share knowledge, resources and experience with others who are keen to increase performance through continuous improvement and Lean principles.
In the true spirit of continuous improvement, please add your own comments to the blogs below and share your experience and ideas with others.
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Online Lean Benchmarking
Benchmarking orgnanisations in a similar industry or sector, provides a focus for improvement and can give a business that vital competitive edge.
This web based self assessment tool identifies current strengths and improvement targets across seven Lean competencies.
The personalised report provides a detailed gap analysis as well as a series of key recommendations and actions required to take your organisation to the next level.
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Lean Benchmarking
Do you need to reduce lead times, increase 'right first time' quality performance or improve productivity and bottom line profits?
Organisations that develop Lean systems are more competitive and increase their profitability in spite of tough market conditions.
This on site assessment carried out by a seasoned Lean practitioner benchmarks performance against businesses in a similar industry or sector.
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Skills Coaching
How are you developing the potential leaders within your business?
Skills Coaching enables an organisation to tap into hidden capabilities, motivate key individuals and grow potential leaders.
Through a series of monthly one to one sessions we work through nine recognised leadership competencies. The coaching sessions are designed to develop the necessary skills required in order to deliver the stated business objectives.
Listening to the news from Davos 2012 this week you might think so. It would appear that there is too much focus on austerity these days and too little on growth.
Heads of the IMF and World Bank have joined other influential figures in calling on countries to implement more policies to encourage economic growth. Furthermore Lord Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics didn't equivocate about his feelings on austerity in the United Kingdom when he spoke with CNBC last Thursday: It has not worked.
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In these times of austerity, it seems to me that some business leaders in the service sector who favour ‘slash and burn’ cost cutting measures are short sighted and would do well to reach for a set of Waste Goggles first.
Many operational leaders don’t really appreciate what waste (or ‘Muda’ using the Lean jargon) actually looks like, are busy satisfying immediate (urgent and important) customer needs and cannot see the wood for the trees when it comes to improving efficiency.
Enlighten business leaders can spot waste, are Benchmarking thier Lean performance
The age old question - how to get started with lean?
It’s a bit like Chicken or Egg…should we just try a few lean tools first and see how we get on, or begin with a clearly defined lean strategy and implementation plan.
Lean Benchmarking Accelerates Manufacturing Performance
categories: Benchmarking Lean19-Sep-10 09:35
"There were a number of benefits to our organisation; this gave us independent feedback on the status of our lean implementation, it also allowed us to compare and highlight strengths and weaknesses with others in the lean community and analyse our current status. The gap analysis offered useful suggestions for improvement projects.
A critically important issue in Lean success is the relationship between Human Resources (HR) and Lean transformation.
There are two facets to the relationship between Lean and HR. First, the HR function like any other department in the company needs to apply Lean principles towards process improvement of its own work. Secondly, the HR function needs to actively support Lean transformation through out the organisation.
In addition to these broad areas of focus, robust policies and practices need to exist to enable an organisation to sustain its Lean journey.
Lean HR case study
We were contacted by the MD an organisation in Kent who, quite simply told us his business was in a desperate situation.
A critically important issue in Lean success is the relationship between Human Resources (HR) and Lean transformation. 
There are two facets to the relationship between Lean and HR. First, the HR function like any other department in the company needs to apply Lean principles towards process improvement of its own work. Secondly, the HR function needs to actively support Lean transformation through out the organisation.
In addition to these broad areas of focus, robust policies and practices need to exist to enable an organisation to sustain its Lean journey.
The challenge
The challenge for this hospital trust was to reduce day to day operating costs and at the same time increase capacity &
patient throughput in Day Case wards.
This web based tool offers a FREE trial and an opportunity to assess your current Lean performance. The Advanced version provides a unique LeanBenchmark™ report (Sample Report) enabling organisations to target scarce resources, improve productivity and reduce costs.
Benefits of Lean Benchmarking:
- Identifies competitive threats
- Provides a complete picture of Lean performance
A research report entitled ‘The Innovation Imperative in Manufacturing’ published by the Boston Consulting Group describes the most effective
tools for promoting and sustaining Innovation.
Well this obviously depends on our own personal experiences with Lean and the knowledge gained implementing Lean programmes. Reading quotes from well known Lean Gurus or taking an online Lean Benchmarking asessment is not a bad place to start expanding our Lean knowledge.
Lean is not just about Tools!
There is always a danger that Lean is considered as a set of tools that can be cherry picked.
According to the Carbon Trust, Businesses that take action to reduce their carbon footprint benefit from reduced energy costs, an enhanced reputation, motivated employees and in so doing can meet their regulatory obligations. (download free guides at end of page) & some
commentators suggest that adopting Lean principles across the organisation is the answer...but are they right?
Well of course we all appreciate that elimination of the seven wastes (Over production, Over processing, Waiting, Movement, Defects, Transport and Inventory) can help reduce the volume of materials, energy and water consumed.
LEAN - how to get started and then sustain the journey?
categories: BestPractice Lean14-Dec-09 16:08
“There are three kinds of leaders…Those that tell you what to do…Those that allow you to do what you want…and Lean leaders that come down to the work place and help you figure it out.” (John Shook). For me this quote highlights really well the critical importance of ‘Lean Leadership’.This is all well and good, but how can leaders develop or strengthen their Lean knowledge?
Lean benchmarking (Sample Report) provides a focus for continuous improvement activities, delivering real bottom line savings.
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