No time for rapid improvement?
No time for Rapid Improvement? Recently I visited a large organisation where I met a head of department (let’s call her Susan) and her team. The team’s remit was to recruit temporary, unskilled staff for the rest of the organisation. Susan and her colleagues admitted they were frustrated by the inefficiency of the recruitment process […]
The improvement story at Lestra Design
The improvement story at Lestra Design Georges Mekies, General Manager of Lestra Design, was wondering what action he should take. For several years, Lestra had been trying to enter the Japanese market for duvets and eiderdowns, the largest market for these products in the world. At the time, Lestra Design was the leading manufacturer of […]
Is Lean Six Sigma a Fad?
Have you lived through endless new corporate initiatives? I have, and it can be tiresome. As an advocate of the improvement methodology known as Lean Six Sigma, I sometimes get asked, “is this just another fad”? Call me biased, but I hardly think so. For more than two decades I have dedicated myself to the […]