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[Let us] Help [you] to Grow: Management

[Let us] Help [you] to Grow: Management

Posted on 5 September 2021 by

Guest post by Dr. Jane Lynch, Programme Director of Help to Grow In 2019, Welsh Government estimated there were 267,000 enterprises active in Wales with 95% of these registered as […]

Operations Rule the World

Operations Rule the World

Posted on 31 January 2021 by

There are many things that annoy me in the world of work, but a particular bugbear of mine, which I’m sure happens in many organisations, is that when discussing the […]

Economies of Scale vs. Economies of Flow

Posted on 24 October 2018 by

Often when I’m teaching, I find myself skulking amongst the middle ground of contrasting ideas. Sometimes I’m even perilously perched atop of a massive fence dividing two opinions. Sometimes I’m […]

GDPR-ositivity

Posted on 23 March 2018 by

I heard the letters G, D, P and R together for the first time in April 2017 at a Breakfast Briefing that the Business School organised about the DVLA’s digital […]

Right to Left Technology Thinking

Posted on 23 March 2018 by

One of the first things I learned when I joined the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) in 2005 was the power of understanding that, as work is completed in organizations, […]

The Intangible Balance Scorecard

Posted on 23 March 2018 by

Since Robert Kaplan and David Norton’s hugely successful Balance Scorecard approach to strategic business management, first published in the Harvard Business Review in 1992, organizations have sought to measure a […]

Creating Organizational Cultures of Learning – Linked Learning Loops

Posted on 23 March 2018 by

“The trouble with us is that we’ve got no corporate memory.” I’ve heard this statement in various forms from a variety of different people I’ve worked with over the years. […]

Lean Management and Maternity!

Posted on 9 January 2015 by

In February this year I found out that I was pregnant. I gave birth to my baby in October, so it’s hard to talk about the challenges that I’ve faced […]

Visualising Workflows

Posted on 23 July 2014 by

The more I understand about efficient and effective work practices, the more I realise that often the most important tactic to employ is that of visualisation – taking the work […]

The Turmoils of Transformation

Posted on 23 July 2014 by

As a lean specialist, I’m in the business of business transformation. Applying a lean approach can provide an organisation with a great ethos, structure and the necessary tools and techniques […]