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6 07, 2020

The Real Secret to Toyota’s Enduring Success

By |2020-07-06T20:23:42+01:00July 6th, 2020|Categories: Toyota Kata Coaching|Tags: , , , |

Do YOU Even Know about the ‘Real' Secret to Toyota's Enduring Success? We’ll give you a clue - it's not the Tools. In fact, by understanding what this secret is, you could transform your business and achieve the most challenging of goals - way beyond your current levels of performance, and potentially NOT use one single Lean Tool. How much time and effort are your people putting in to your Lean and CI efforts today, to end up being a pale imitation of Toyota? Most Lean Transformations fail (*) anyway, so why bother? There must be a better way. And [...]

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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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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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