Do Improvements Grow on Trees?
When you have navigated your way through Define, Measure and Analyse, you can progress to Improve.
What is Six Sigma all about?
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...
Making Mistakes
Sir Robinson says “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”.
Kaizen vs. DMAIC
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?
What really kills change and improvement projects
I’ve been delivering Lean Improvements in organisations for over 15 years. I see resistance in almost every project I’ve delivered. Sometimes, it’s minor and sometimes, its maximum resistance and sometimes, it kills the improvement completely. The big question of course is… Why?
“That’s Non-Value Adding Activity”
If I’m being honest, I’ve never heard anyone outside of a Continuous Improvement function say that – unless they were trained in Lean Six Sigma (LSS). And yet it is fundamental to improving your product or service; either the speed in which it’s produced, the cost in which you produce...
So… What do you do?
In the past 7 years as a Lean Continuous Improvement (CI) practitioner, the most common question I get asked is, “So… What is it you do in your role?” Usually, in response to this question, I pause for a moment and tend to describe the technical aspects of my job,...
Why would you ever want to be unsupportive of improvement?
Working as an improvement consultant I sometimes come across stakeholders who are unsupportive of the work. It always strikes me as a somewhat odd position to take. If you think about it, there is very little to gain from being unsupportive of improvements.
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