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About Graham Canning

Graham Canning, the Managing Director and founder of Lean FSL Associates has worked in lean and kaizen consultancy roles for more than 10 years, supported by 15 years working in the Manufacturing sector for companies such as Toyota, Black & Decker and Pilkington Glass. He has an impressive record in leading lean transformations in many different industries (including Healthcare and Financial Services). Graham has developed a network of Associates to Lean FSL who are capable and skilled in all aspects of lean and continuous improvement, which means that Lean FSL are able to support their customer’s lean activity at a significantly lower cost than other consultancy firms.
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2 04, 2018

Graham Canning secures LCS Level 3b Accreditation

By |2020-01-05T19:52:56+00:00April 2nd, 2018|Categories: Leadership & Kata, Lean Coaching|

We are delighted to be able to confirm that MD of Lean FSL, Graham Canning, has recently been accredited with a Level 3b qualification from the Lean Competency Service at Cardiff Business School. This qualification is the highest level possible within the LCS structure.  Simon Elias, Director of the LCS, commented that, “This award reflects both Graham’s depth of experience and his excellent knowledge of lean. His submission was commended for cases that demonstrated a mature strategic capability with high levels of critical reflection and also for his lean thinking assignment that concluded that success in applying and sustaining lean, requires a whole [...]

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15 12, 2017

Lean Kata Training goes live at Waitrose!

By |2020-01-05T19:53:05+00:00December 15th, 2017|Categories: Leadership & Kata, Problem-solving|

Lean FSL Associates was delighted to have been chosen to support the introduction of a Lean Kata Simulation activity at the Waitrose Headquarters in Bracknell. Lean FSL are gaining a reputation as one of the UK's leading trainers and consultants in Lean / Toyota Kata, with links to several leading Kata experts in Europe and the US. If you think we can help you to discover more about the power of Lean Kata in your organisation please contact us for a no obligation discussion.

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16 12, 2016

Balancing the Flow – or How to Make Sure Your Business Survives Your Muda Reduction Activities!

By |2020-01-05T19:53:13+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Flow Tools|Tags: , , , , |

Hello everybody, it’s been far too long since my last blog, maybe this was because of having a very busy 2016? I think that’s probably the reason! Thank you to all my customers and partner organisations for another successful and challenging year. So, it gives me great pleasure to be able to sign off 2016 – a strange and troubling year in many ways – with some positive learnings that I want to share with you all about Flow. I’ve been working with a couple of clients this year who have production lines containing several fairly complex processes which are very [...]

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1 12, 2015

We all need a Lean Coach: Why a ‘Sensei’ is for life, not just for Christmas!

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00December 1st, 2015|Categories: Lean Coaching|Tags: , , , , |

Greetings of the Season to you all. It’s been a while since I last blogged, but the arrival of some colder weather in the UK and the feeling of hurtling towards the festive period with few plans in place, has spurred me into action. If I don’t commit to writing something now, then it could well be the New Year before I get chance again! I wanted to focus my discussion in this blog on the role of the Coach in our own personal Lean development. It struck me recently that I am spending more and more of my time ‘coaching’ [...]

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5 10, 2015

Lean Kata Training: An Exciting New Offering from Lean FSL

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00October 5th, 2015|Categories: Latest News|Tags: , , , , |

Lean FSL are delighted to announce that having recently participated in a Lean Kata Simulation training event, facilitated by TWI trainer Joakim Bjurstrom, at the University of Buckingham, we are now able to offer Lean Kata training and on-the-job coaching as part of our portfolio of services to customers. Click on the link below for more details on how we can support you and your team in practicing your Kata: Kata Flyer - Oct.15 We are actively looking for clients who will allow us to 'practice' Kata training for ourselves. We need your help in applying the Kata principles to our [...]

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3 07, 2015

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lean Organisations…..(Part 2)

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00July 3rd, 2015|Categories: Leadership & Kata|Tags: , , , |

Hello and welcome to part two of my blog on how Dr. Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Successful People can be translated into the behaviours associated with successful lean transformations. This blog will cover Habits 4 to 7, which focus particularly on ‘interdependence’ – effectively working with others, and ‘continuous improvement’ – which shouldn’t be much of an intellectual leap to see how this habit fits into a lean culture! So, here we go. 4. Think Win-Win. In this habit, Covey challenges the traditional, adversarial paradigm, of only being able to win, if the other party loses. He also adds [...]

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5 05, 2015

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective…Lean Organisations!

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00May 5th, 2015|Categories: Leadership & Kata|

Hi everybody, Welcome to the latest Lean FSL blog. We've had a tantalising glimpse or two of Summer here in the UK over the past couple of weeks. It's always difficult to predict if these early spells of warmth are a foretaste of a long English Summer to come, or that they were the Summer! My topic for this blog (and the next one) draws from one of my favourite business self-help improvement books, 'The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective People' by Dr. Stephen Covey. I can hardly believe that this seminal work is over 25 years old; but as I was [...]

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20 03, 2015

Lean FSL’s Graham Canning now a Growth Accelerator Coach

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00March 20th, 2015|Categories: Latest News|

Lean FSL Associates is delighted to announce that Managing Consultant, Graham Canning is now a registered and approved Growth Coach for GrowthAccelerator. Part of the UK government-backed Business Growth Service, it provides expert, tailored advice to help businesses achieve rapid, sustainable growth. Find out more at www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/ga Graham commented: “I’m delighted to receive this accreditation, and have already started exploring with new clients ways Lean FSL can help them with their Operational Support and training needs.” If you are a UK-based Small or Medium Enterprise, from any sector of business, you may well qualify for funded training and consultancy support, through [...]

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13 03, 2015

The Myth of Multi-tasking: a New Barrier to Flow

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00March 13th, 2015|Categories: Flow Tools, Leadership & Kata|Tags: , , |

Hello again everybody, and welcome to the latest blog from Lean FSL. The signs of Spring are all around us now, and it's a great time to be thinking about improvement - both as individuals and organisations. More and more of my work these days is with clients in the 'New World' of information flows and customer services. It's been a great new challenge for me personally - to test my abilities in these environments - especially as the 'product' is often an intangible piece of electronic data or a phone call. It's much easier to see barriers to flow, when [...]

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13 02, 2015

Can lean thinking really be the key to ‘Making Hospitals Work’?

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00February 13th, 2015|Categories: Healthcare|Tags: , , |

Hello everybody, welcome to the latest Lean FSL blog. The Christmas break already seems a long time ago, and thoughts have undoubtedly turned to how to escape the dark and cold British winter! Another, almost perennial, occurrence during the long winter months is the news headlines regarding the latest crisis in the NHS. Yet again, a few weeks ago, we saw the media reporting that A&E departments were being over-whelmed with high demand. I - probably along with many of you - am left frustrated by a complete lack of ‘joined-up’ thinking around healthcare from our politicians, and the lack of [...]

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