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The articles below explain how to overcome common barriers to improvement and how industry leaders sustain the gains where others are not able to.
This is based on our work with well-known and award winning organisations. There is much to learn from them. If there are any topics you would like is to add, please get in touch.
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Delivering Year On Year Performance Gains
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Plain English guide setting out how TPM delivers year on year gains through improved leadership and engagement.
Lessons From The Pioneers Of Successful Digitisation
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The most common cause of failure of digitisation projects is to over focus on the technology. So what should you focus on?
What Successful Organisations Do Well
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If the journey to industry leading performance was clear, everyone would use it but less than 1% of organisations that embark on that journey stay the course.
How Good Is Your Project Cue Action
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Top Snooker or Pool players continually practice the basics so that when the pressure is on, they can rely on their instincts to pull them through.
Below is a list of the equivalent basic skills for successful project delivery many of which are missing from traditional project management training such as Prince 2.
With these capabilities, stakeholders from junior team members to Project Governance roles are able to surface issues early and make decisions that secure the glide path to flawless day one operation.
Learning To Learn Online
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During an online training session, the course leader is not aware of individual progress without feedback from the learner.
Managing In A Digital World
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A characteristic of business crisis is the way the shock accelerates trends of decline for some and catapults others into rapid growth. One of those trends during the lockdown has been an increased use of online video conferencing. Some have estimated that online and remote working has progressed by the equivalent of 10 years of development in just 3 months. For many, it has become the default meeting forum. A feature that is likely to remain with us.
Total Productive Manufacturing Delivers Supply Chain Improvement
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Supply chains are constantly evolving to adapt to dynamic pressures from a combination of Uncertainty (such as Global warming, Corona virus, Brexit) and real world dynamics (such as traffic flows, changes in customer preference and distribution channel. One approach to mitigating this risk has been to hold inventory at key parts of the supply chain but that is no guarantee of success and it adds to cost of operation.
Why Leaders Need A Museum
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During an item on news about National Football Museum chief executive Tim Desmond commented that "The National Football Museum Hall of Fame aims to recognise a wide diversity of individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the game".
Making The Business Vision Earn Its Keep
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I went to Japan in 1993 on a study tour and visited a manufacturer making lighting that had achieved 8 hours between intervention across their end to end process. The benefits to the business were many.
