Increase Employee Engagement & Boost Productivity
Making engagement happen is the biggest business challenge most organisations will face this decade.
Managing Across the Generations
James Doctor, a leadership consultant specialising in millennials, talks to us from a millennial’s perspective about what they are seeking in work terms.
Work is less visible than ever before
Humans are visual creatures. Half of the human brain is directly or indirectly devoted to processing visual information.
Adopting Lean and Six Sigma improvement methodologies
Six Sigma uses a powerful framework (DMAIC) and statistical tools to uncover root causes to understand and reduce variation. It’s about doing things right (defect free).
Lean Principles
What is Lean? Lean is fundamentally about culture, i.e., ‘this is the way we do things around here’. That implies a range of issues for an organisation seeking to adopt Lean as a business [...]
Six Sigma Principles
What is Six Sigma? Developed by Motorola in 1981, it springs from a range of existing quality improvement methodologies. It is used to analyse cause and effect. And is most effective when used to [...]
Comparison of Lean and Six Sigma
Comparing methodologies Lean and Six Sigma are process-based improvement methodologies: both were developed in manufacturing environments, both have proven their effectiveness. Current emerging [...]
Case study: The Toyota recall – has Lean failed?
Toyota’s Quality: Improving or Declining? While vehicle recall numbers have climbed significantly (along with actual production numbers), there has been a decline in the rate of customer [...]
Being ‘good’ is just not going to play anymore
How the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Fellowship program helps talented young musicians manage themselves within a high-performing team.
Becoming fit to handle significant growth
How Coxswain Alliance led a global emergency management company through an 8 week process of lifting its delivery capability to...
