Insight - Lean Consulting

Forced Rankings are Terrible!

By Cameron Turner
In Leadership, Management, Performance Management

The measures are often arbitrary. If you can quantifiably measure something, that takes away a lot (but not all) of the bias, but in most cases, we try to measure behaviours like Cooperation, Teamwork, Collaboration & Communication which are all qualitative, or Opinion-based. Then there is a whole set of...

Data vs. Analysis

By Cameron Turner
In Analysis, Data, Performance

Are you reading your data correctly? 00:06 Let’s talk about the difference between data and analysis. 00:11 Because I frequently see people looking at data in organisations,

What is Six Sigma all about?

By Cameron Turner
In Improvement, Lean Six Sigma

So you may have heard the term ‘Six Sigma’ thrown around the workplace but not really know what it was actually about. Or perhaps you are aware it’s something to do with Improvement or perhaps you’ve never heard the term before. We thought we’d take a minute to provide a...

What vs. Why

By Cameron Turner
In Analysis, Measures, Process Improvement, Uncategorised

We’ve previously talked about how most businesses attempt to track why customers contact them and how they tend to be flawed because we rely on our staff to track the reason for us.

Making Mistakes

By Cameron Turner
In Improvement, Innovation, Leadership

Sir Robinson says “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”.

9 Lean Measures that Everyone can use

By Cameron Turner
In Continuous Improvement, Lean Techniques, Lean Tools

Efficiency improvement is something that many of our clients are interested in and we’re often asked for our ‘top tips’ for improving efficiency. So here they are!

Lean Green Tomatoes

By Cameron Turner
In Process Improvement, Productivity, Strategy

An example of Lean Application to Agriculture Every now and again you come across something that makes you smile it just so damn clever, and for me this week it was about tomatoes. Now, you might wonder where this is going, but honestly, it’s a really nice example of Systems...

Kaizen vs. DMAIC

By Cameron Turner
In Continuous Improvement, Improvement, Lean, Lean Six Sigma

I’ve heard many people debating whether Kaizen or DMAIC is the better approach, and sometimes the argument gets quite heated, so I wondered, who would win in a fight be between the two approaches?

Standard Deviation

By Cameron Turner
In LinkedIn, Math Problems, Uncategorised

Today on Maths is Fun, I’m going to talk about Standard Deviations. That’s a really overly complicated term, that just earns the average distance away from the average that each data point is. And if you’ve ever heard the expression, I’m being graded on a curve, they’re using a Standard...

Why do credit cards have tape and embossed numbers

By Cameron Turner
In Business, Digital Transformation, Information, Innovation

00;00;07;00 This is a debit card, or it could be a credit card. 00;00;11;14 You all know one of these is evil, you use them countless times