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5 Counter Intuitive Elements of Lean

Posted on 26 April 2020 by

(or Lean is Weird) Relatively early in the lockdown, when the usually ever-bountiful supermarkets were ransacked by worried shoppers, leaving aisle upon aisle of bare shelves, criticisms of lean began […]

Citizen Lethbridge

Citizen Lethbridge

Posted on 1 March 2020 by

I’m sitting in a café waiting to go to the TedX Cardiff Conference co-organised by one of our associates Richard Strudwick with the support of the Cardiff School of Journalism, […]

The Generation Game

The Generation Game

Posted on 2 February 2020 by

There are lots of pivotal statements that are said to you in your life, that somehow or other, make it onto the great ‘statements I will never forget’ stone tablet […]

System Addict

System Addict

Posted on 21 December 2019 by

Thanks to my stellar upbringing, I have turned out to be a rather ‘forthright’ woman, chock full of opinions.  As I get older, experience is only galvanizing my resolve. I’m getting […]

Small is Beautiful

Small is Beautiful

Posted on 2 December 2019 by

Unfortunately, as we come to the end of the year, it just feels like there are so many huge things that we still all have to deal with.  I have to […]

Price Does Not Equal Value

Price Does Not Equal Value

Posted on 12 October 2019 by

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for us in work, one that has made me acutely aware of the fact that it is so hard to accurately describe value […]

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Lean?

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Lean?

Posted on 16 September 2019 by

I don’t like flying much at all. Not for climate reasons unfortunately, but for defying gravity reasons. I became ok at it when I worked on a project in Switzerland […]

Have Laptop, Will Hustle

Have Laptop, Will Hustle

Posted on 13 August 2019 by

I’m going to say something quite privileged right now, but I’m amazed that everyone in work doesn’t have a laptop. Well, let me rephrase that, I’m amazed anyone who has […]

Pizza Productivity

Pizza Productivity

Posted on 21 July 2019 by

In my lectures I often joke that once you start seeing the world from a lean perspective, things that you used to enjoy can start to become quite frustrating because […]

Looking Sideways and Down

Looking Sideways and Down

Posted on 25 June 2019 by

When looking at how operations management is evolving, it seems that some of the more innovative companies follow an organisational design akin to the Netflix model of “highly aligned, loosely […]