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The Great Process Improvement Secret

19 October, 2014 by James Lawther 8 Comments

How to be a Process Guru What is the one simple truth the Process Improvement Gurus know? Just flick through the SlideShare and I will spill the beans…  Full screen is best.   Unfortunately, if you are reading this via e-Mail you will have to visit SlideShare to find out.  In full Technicolor glory. If you enjoyed this […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: beliefs, lean thinking, management style, SlideShare

If You Must Write on Your Slides…

20 August, 2014 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Legibility

Legibility You may have done the most comprehensive piece of analysis known to mankind.  You might have discovered the secret to untold wealth, health and happiness.  However… All the analysis in the world is worthless if nobody understands it and acts.  So it doesn’t matter which font, image, graphic, table or chart you are using in your […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: communication, data presentation, presentations

Is Your Platform Really Burning?

28 June, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Burning Platform

You know this already… We respond to change differently.  There are lots of different categorisations, but we are usually described in groups a bit like this… Dangerous to know — The gung-ho mob, they will try anything.  A bit like my idiot brother. Have a go — Once they see that the coast is clear, they are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: human nature, innovation, reinforcing behaviour, what don't you see

PowerPoint, Smoke and Mirrors

16 May, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Very Bad Presentation

A very important presentation I attended a power meeting yesterday.  Lots of highly paid consultants in blue suits and incredibly shiny shoes came to tell us where we are going wrong. I sat there for an hour, looking at the screen. Slide after slide after slide passed me by. They were very impressive slides The technique […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: clarity, data presentation, presentations, video

The Stop Button

6 April, 2014 by James Lawther 8 Comments

How does your stop button work? If you walk around a manufacturing plant you will see that every machine has a stop button. They are easy to spot.  They are big, round, red, attached to a bright yellow box and bear the legend STOP. Hit the stop button and the machine will come to an […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: andon, best practice, customer focus, process control, rework

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