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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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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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2 09, 2014

In defence of the humble Value Stream Map

By |2018-06-13T11:19:38+01:00September 2nd, 2014|Categories: Value Stream Mapping|Tags: , |

Hello everybody, Welcome to the latest blog from Lean FSL Associates. I hope you all had a great Summer? The theme for this blog, is to argue the usefulness, the 'power' even of the Value Stream Map. Why do I need to jump to the defence of this lean tool in the first place you may ask? Well, it stems from a blog article I read from Bob Emiliani (the link to which is posted at the foot of this article). To those of you not familiar with the name, you should check him out. He's a Professor, an author, and [...]

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10 08, 2014

Chimp or Human? Who’s solving Problems in your Organisation?

By |2018-06-13T11:19:38+01:00August 10th, 2014|Categories: Problem-solving|Tags: , , |

Hello again, Welcome to this the second blog on the Lean FSL website. I hope everybody's summers are going well? Its been great to enjoy some sunshine over the past few weeks. Those of us based in the UK are grateful for small mercies! I've recently returned from a short holiday in Scotland to take in some of the Commonwealth Games. I got the idea for this blog from my holiday reading, The Chimp Complex, by Dr Steve Peters. You may have heard of Dr Peters, he's the consultant psychiatrist to many of our British Cycling Olympians, such as Sir Chris [...]

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