Taking Care Of Business

TCOB Consulting delivers productivity improvements for manufacturing and service businesses whilst ensuring that all the improvements are related to a genuine business need.

TCOB consulting At Taking Care of Business that means that we work actively and collaboratively with all levels of our client organisations. Our goal is ‘Enabling Excellence’ taking the skills and knowledge of your people and then combining them with our internationally accredited trainers, consultants and world wide recognised methodologies to provide, long term sustainable improvements to your business. Our approach of taking these methodologies, customising them to meet your specific business needs and then managing the change process in the key areas of Man, Machinery, Material and Method ensures that we empower your staff to achieve genuine measurable performance improvements.

Many consultancies will promise benefits and efficiency savings of up to 30% with no significant outlay when employing Lean tools. At Taking Care of Business we know that this is only part of the story and that when these benefits are achieved the real value of a Lean improvement is creating the cultural change that ensures their long-term sustainability.

We are experienced in dealing with local, national and international organisations including Government departments. Our success in a diverse range of industries enables us to deliver a fully customised solution to our clients.

This solution is based on the three levels of engagement most often requested from our client base. So whether you require specific training from our ‘Enabling Excellence’ programme, assistance in remodelling a particular value stream or a complete overall of all business operations, we can customise an approach covering all four key areas to help bring you towards your desired future state.

In addition we also offer our 'Enabling Excellence' coaching and mentoring service. By engaging with your key personnel on a regular basis we are able to continue the process of building sustainability into your operations.

Whether it is a specific business need, process improvement opportunity, a company wide operating system or a specific training event from our 'Enabling Excellence' programme, then consider TCOB as your first choice partner when it comes to Taking Care of your Business.

Dieting and Lean, different story same outcome
17/04/2010
Whilst out with friends at dinner the other day the conversation turned to diets. Turned out that at our table of eight people five of them were on one sort of diet or another. As I listened to the conversation it became apparent that most had been on other diets before with varying degrees of initial success but after a while the initial weight was regained, sometimes with an extra kilo or two.

Now I don’t profess to have an expertise in this field although I have always wondered why, if any particular diet works, there are so many others?

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The Lean Toolbox
02/12/2009
This article first appeared in the Quality Digest Magazine. The author makes a very important point about how just having lean tools does not support a lean change.

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You only get what you measure
24/11/2009
If you truly do get what you measure it is interesting to note that many traditional organisations rely on metrics that are focused on operational features like cost of labour, raw materials and production output vs. sales projection or forecasts. Making decisions in the current business climate on such narrowly defined operation factors, see examples in Table 1, could prove disastrous.

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