Can We Help?

The following examples give some idea of client issues that we have addressed:

We want to retain UK manufacturing but need to be 25% more efficient – how do we do it?

We can see a huge opportunity ahead but we need to increase our output by 50% in three months – without moving to new premises.

Our processes are so poor that we’re losing customers and profits – soon we’ll be losing our best employees. How do we get it right – quickly, and in a way that involves and motivates our people?

Although we’re supposed to be directing the business, in reality we’re all running around like headless chickens, worrying about today’s problems. How do we break out of this vicious spiral?

Our first line managers have never had any training – we just expect them to get on with it, somehow. How do we give them practical help without lots of irrelevant classroom training?

We’ve got a great business here – we know we can get much more out of it but we’re not sure exactly how.

We need to develop a realistic profit plan for the business – one that our investors will back – and we need to do it yesterday.

We need to upgrade our information systems but we don’t just want to automate what we’ve already got. How do we streamline our procedures, and then develop a specification for what we really need?

How do we achieve the impossible – reduce lead-times, reduce costs, improve our performance and make life easier for our employees - all at the same time!

We can’t go on like this – there must be a better way!

We want a short, sharp workshop session that motivates our production operators – and we want to train our own people to deliver it.

We want to develop a six-month programme of open workshops that we can offer to our clients.

We need to introduce a company-wide change programme but we don’t know where to start.

We’ve been dabbling with Lean for years now but it’s never really taken hold – how do we develop a genuine continuous improvement culture?