by Olivia Chalmers | Jul 23, 2023 | Efficiency, Lean Six Sigma
Like many other organisations, you may be considering how you can reduce operating costs within your business. At this turbulent time of economic uncertainty, many organisations are finding that their costs to deliver services are increasing which is putting...
by Oge Zogie-Odigie | Jan 14, 2019 | Efficiency, Employee Engagement, 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, Inspiring People, 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, Environment, Lean Six Sigma, 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, Project Management, 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, Lean Six Sigma
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...