Empowering Willing Workers: Great Long-term Results
Progress requires a willingness to embrace change. We all carry a certain reticence and reluctance to change, it forms part of our evolutionary make up, and its existence is responsible for the reasons that form certain judgments and stereotypes. The status quo is safe and has supported us so far, so part of us (even the most ardent change agent) will challenge change with the question: Why?
Read moreFinding Your Way
Share: I love maps, always have – whether it’s an Ordnance Survey, A to Z or the dynamic Google. Apart from being interested in […]
Read moreVisualising the end result – an Asset Management Strategy
Share: Background to Lean RCM In 1978, a report written by two United Airlines engineers ending a 4-year study of reliability became the […]
Read moreLean RCM training can integrate with Continuous Improvement & PDCA
A LeanRCM masterclass programme will improve reliability. It is perfectly conceivable that 90% of the process failure modes will be identified during that Masterclass and appropriate control measures put in place to prevent them. So what about the other 10% and what if some of the assumptions on the 90% were slightly incorrect?
Read moreTackling Resistance to Change – The benefit of ‘Inverted Triangle Thinking’
Ask any manager or team member in an organisation to draw out the organisational structure within their business and they will, as sure as fate, draw a triangle with the narrow part at the top of the page and the broad part of the triangle at the bottom of the page.
Read moreCalculators make “Pupils better at Maths”
Share: I saw this headline last week on the BBC news page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43500274 Didn’t need Sherlock Holmes to work that out I thought, however […]
Read moreA reliability strategy: a new thinking paradigm is required
Share: It’s an amazing fact that over 90% of the companies we come across have a reliability strategy based simply on servicing the components […]
Read more3 Step Guide to Operational Excellence
Share: 3 Step Guide to Operational Excellence What is Operational Excellence? What does Operational Excellence look like? And to be frank, who cares? Big questions right? Maybe that […]
Read moreOne Direction
Share: No, not flat caps or the popular with youngster’s band, I’m talking about how organisations are aligned and focused. Otherwise known as “True […]
Read moreLife is a masterclass no matter what your business
Share: Life is a masterclass no matter what your business EMS Cognito Competitive Edge Consulting for Business Transformation […]
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