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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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5 12, 2014

Time to let the KATA out of the bag

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00December 5th, 2014|Categories: Leadership & Kata|Tags: , |

How learning two new habits will get your improvement efforts really purring! Hi, welcome to Lean FSL’s latest blog. I’ve been talking to clients a lot recently about something called ‘kata’, and this prompted me to dust off a book I purchased about 4 years ago by Mike Rother called ‘Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results’. I’m not sure if I missed the significance of the approach the first time, but having now revisited the book I have come to realise what an excellent and important piece of work it is. I’m starting to come to the [...]

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13 10, 2014

Tesco no longer lean you say? It hasn’t been for a long time..

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00October 13th, 2014|Categories: Leadership & Kata|Tags: , |

Hello again everybody, welcome to my latest blog. As they seem to be in the news almost every day at present, I thought I would pick up on the recent troubles that Tesco finds itself in. Perhaps prompted by the bad headlines, there have been a few dissenting voices regarding Tesco's reputation as a 'lean' examplar. (Check out the link to the Independent article at the end of this blog, and the Twitter comments from Bob Emiliani and others) Interestingly I have since found a link to a book on Amazon - that is still awaiting publication - that includes a [...]

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14 07, 2014

Onshoring? Why’d you go in the first place?

By |2018-06-13T11:19:38+01:00July 14th, 2014|Categories: Leadership & Kata|

Hello, and welcome to the first of what is hopefully many blogs from me and the Associates of Lean FSL. The purpose of these blogs is to challenge some of the paradigms and ‘group think’ that exist around the subjects of lean and kaizen, and to try and get you thinking. We’re here to be challenged to, so we welcome all inputs to the debate. The lean community is incredibly generous with the sharing of knowledge, and in a small way we hope to contribute to this. As there has been a lot of media interest lately in the concept of [...]

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