How to Become a Lean Six Sigma Organization

In a difficult economy, an increasing number of senior business leaders are seeking to boost the performance of their operations by adopting Lean Six Sigma. Before these organizations can begin to reap the benefits of continuous process improvement, they must first understand the fundamental elements of the process...

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How a personal organisation system can boost your productivity

You are always busy, but does that mean you are always productive? Incoming queries from your team, requests from your seniors, Slack notifications, ‘quick questions’ and other ad-hoc tasks can soon mount up and make it hard to feel that you have been productive. Then there’s life admin,...

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What Process Improvement Can Learn From Soccer

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Billions of people across the globe were bitten by soccer fever in 2014. It’s a sport that is widely followed and has the highest level of thrill. The other day I was watching a repeat telecast of the Brazil vs Chile match. It was an exciting match that...

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Case Study: Optimizing Fuel Economy

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Late last year, I decided to upgrade my vehicle. For seven years I’d driven a Honda Civic. It was nothing special, just a reliable vehicle with good gas mileage – the perfect commuter car. But now I’ve got two kids, own a home and picked up woodworking as...

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Common Misunderstandings About Process Control Tools in Non-Scientific Applications

One day when I was starting my career, I was having lunch with a group of my friends. One of them had just returned from a business trip to Manhattan. He said that there was one NY building that three million people visited every day. We all nodded...

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Are you making one of these 5 top communication mistakes?

Bad communication can be hugely damaging for workplaces. When the simplest of instructions get lost in translation they can be misinterpreted. This can be costly both in terms of time and money. When communication is lacklustre, otherwise enthusiastic employees can become disheartened and lack morale. The result –...

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Team Teachings: Lessons in Operator, Equipment and Product Accountability

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Bulked continuous filament (BCF) carpet yarn manufacturing is a commodity product for which production from a single plant can be measured in the hundreds of millions of pounds annually. Hundreds of draw-texturing positions produce 15-pound bobbins of textured yarns continuously – as many as 3,000 in a month...

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How PRINCE2 Foundation Certification Can Boost Your Career Growth?

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PRINCE2 Foundation Certification Since you are involved in a project management career, PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner Certification are essential. PRINCE2 Foundation exam is a much inquired after credential in project management. Axelos is the organization that advocated the PRINCE2 Foundation certification. Therefore, if you are engaged in this...

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Lean Template System Reduces Document Waste

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With the growing need for reducing waste in all aspects of work done in an organization, people are looking at innovative ways to obtain this objective. One waste area, often found in organizations handling outsourced projects, is excessive – and often redundant – documentation. These organizations may be...

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The 5 Stages of the ITIL® V3 Service Lifecycle

ITIL® V3 takes a Lifecycle approach to providing best practice guidance for IT Service Management. There are five stages in the ITIL V3 Service Lifecycle: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continual Service Improvement. Service Strategy The Service Strategy phase of the Service Lifecycle provides...

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5 Steps to Successful Continuous Improvement

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Continuous improvement is the ongoing effort to improve products, services and processes to drive efficiency, effectiveness and overall quality. But what does that mean for an organization? For many, continuous improvement is a struggle. Companies solve problems by fighting fires, but that’s not continuous improvement. Instead, organizations must...

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