by Oge Zogie-Odigie | Jan 14, 2019 | Efficiency, Small Business
It’s January and the air is charged with new hopes and ambitions and people are driven now more than ever to make important personal or professional decisions. It feels like we have a blank page on which to write our own narrative for the year. So, what will you...
by Sarah Thomas | Oct 28, 2018 | Efficiency, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma
Love him or hate him, as many do, it is hard to deny the impact Steve Jobs had on the Apple customer experience for millions of people worldwide. His biographer Walter Isaacson described his tenure as a saga of ‘entrepreneurial creation myth writ large,’ and his...
by Sarah Thomas | Jun 5, 2018 | Awareness days, Efficiency, Waste
A couple of weeks ago I caught the tail end of a tv show presented by Professor Brian Cox ‘The Race for Space’ where he interviewed aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin about the benefits of setting up colonies on Mars. Zubrin suggested that if we could “maximise the...
by Becky Kendall | Feb 7, 2018 | Efficiency, Guides, Roles
If you’re new to being a project sponsor, it’s OK to be unfamiliar with the role. It’s not OK to continue that way. The buck stops with you. You could have the worst project manager, and the most incompetent project team in the world, if the project fails, it’s still...
by Kiran Kachela | Aug 15, 2017 | Efficiency
As Lean Six Sigma has increasingly become a part of mainstream business practices, more and more people have begun talking about it. There has been a long-standing bone of contention surrounding the use of Lean Six Sigma methodologies and its applicability in the...
by Kiran Kachela | May 25, 2017 | Efficiency, Industry
Facilities Management is one of the most exciting industries to be in at the moment, because of its potential to shape the future. Gone are the days of FM teams working from basement boiler room offices, trudging away to maintain buildings with no eye on ‘what’s...