Training

All our programs are highly practical, interactive and, most importantly, tailored to meet your needs. So you achieve the maximum benefit from any training our modules, slides, tools, techniques and examples all relate back to your business.

We provide training for all levels and if required can deliver training outside of normal production times to minimise disruption.

We do not hire facilitators or contractors and our mentors are available to support you at all times.

Follow the links to the left for examples of the modules from our Enabling Excellence program. Each module can be delivered individually, as part of a customised program or as required to support a full lean implementation. Contact us for more information or details of all the courses we offer.

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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