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Thoughts and articles on topics aligned to our services and interests. These include leadership, behaviours, efficiency, productivity, management and many more.
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Start Ups and Growing Businesses – 7 tips from Lean and Kaizen thinking…
The Challenge Business start-up and growth is a challenging time for all entrepreneurs. Taking the risk, having to do a range of tasks outside your natural comfort zone, winning new customers, balancing the books, recruiting staff – all time consuming and resource...
3 key things that could be seriously impacting the profits in you manufacturing business.
If your gross and net profits in manufacturing are not where you want them to be, then you have two choices: React and develop plans to manage the change in situation. Cross your fingers and hope to “ride out the storm” In the second half of the 20th century, making a...
Setting up a business? You need help!
These days everyone wants to set up a business. It has almost become a trend – every other student starts thinking about having a start-up from day 1 at college. There is a wide range of various privately-owned companies existing in the world – they are in...
Change Management – the new constant in our lives
It used to be that death and taxes were the only two sure things in a lifetime, and that a job with a blue chip organisation meant a job for life. This outlook has changed considerably - we are living longer, and changing careers, not just jobs, more often. However,...
The Art of Communication – is it dying a slow death in business?
In this day and age of social media, email and other online means of communication, I worry about the diminishing role of face to face communications in the business environment. Maybe it is a personal opinion, but if I am about to commit funds to a product or service...
Where is your Profit Hiding? The alternative 4 P’s of business
As the saying goes, “Turnover is vanity, Profit is sanity” vente cialis en ligne. And yet, during our ten years of helping businesses across sectors, sizes and industries, we have encountered many examples of “lost profit”. The result of...
Thank you – seems to be the hardest word
Motivation, involvement, empowerment, accountability – all essential ingredients in an engaged workforce, and yet a great number of managers cannot effectively engage with staff to get the best out of them. Visiting clients, and managing factories before that...
The Squeezed Middle and your product!
Listening to the radio the other day, I heard about the issues that Honda are facing, with impending lay offs in the factory as a result of declining demand. One of the analysts mentioned that this was down to the product being positioned in the “squeezed...