Lean management | Process improvement
Learn how to streamline your business operations and improve efficiency with lean process improvement techniques.
Lean management | Process improvement
Imagine if your company was running like clockwork. That would be something. Now imagine that it was also able to include the latest learning on an ongoing basis. That is stretch. This is what ‘continuous process improvement’ is about. It’s the ability to not only be process-driven but to improve everyday. With this article I would like to offer ten recommendations to make it happen.
Employee onboarding | Lean management | Perspective | Process engagement
Knowledge workers spend 61% of their time on email, information search, and internal collaboration.
Lean management | Process improvement
Makigami is a highly structured process map. The map visualises, analyses and communicates any business process. Learn how to produce one here.
Lean management | SOPs & work instructions
We don’t see it coming. What starts as a simple idea quickly becomes part of a torrent of complexity. Before we know it all the good ideas lead to a form of paralysis. In this post I will argue that trick is to use ‘Standard work.’
Lean management | Process execution | Process technology
It’s clear that checklists can reduce complexity and help us to avoid stupid mistakes. This is about how to select the right checklist software for the job.
The only lasting competitive advantage is the ability to learn and innovate. Lean thinking within services has the potential to engage knowledge workers in process improvement on a continuous basis. In this way, the adaptation to new market demands could be gradual and a result of organisational learning.
If something is difficult then you hire an expert, right? Not necessarily. You can often do with a lot less if you avoid making two common mistakes. Let’s call it lean recruitment.
Employee onboarding | Lean management | Process engagement | Process execution
Effective work delegation is a much-overlooked leadership skill. If you can’t delegate work then you can’t scale your time. Instead, you gradually become tied up in operations with no time to develop the business. Read about more effective delegation of work.
Case studies | Lean management | Quality management (QHSE)
This is a case on ISO 9001:2015 in a medium-sized building supplier. We interview the quality manager to find out how it runs in practice.