Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to do the majority of our work where possible from home. Causing us all to operate our daily lives differently. For many organisations the focus will be on business continuity during these times, for high performing organisations they’ll be looking at it through a different lens. A lens of how we can thrive in this instability and safe guard the future of employees and continue to wow our customers.

COVID-19 is a Black Swan event forcing us to live and work in a different way. It’s an adaptive challenge of unprecedented nature. We must all learn to adapt and embrace this change as quickly as possible.

Making Improvement Work - Culture change - The adaptive challenge of creating a culture of continuous improvement. It’s not as easy as you think. It's not about just adopting Lean techniques. It requires Lean thinking, at scale across the organisation. It's about embracing Kaizen at a personal level.

For the last two years we have worked with the UKESF ( United Kingdom Electronics Skills Foundation) teaching undergraduate electronics scholars an overview of what Lean is.

Improving the way we work. From the analogy of being in a relay race, to an interdependent game of rugby. Learn how to create successful ways of working for your teams.

The learnings behind the scenes of Making Improvement Work. My own learnings from major transformation programmes. Lean is not easy. Leadership is challenging. Change, done right is rewarding.

This leadership challenge is the art of being able to evolve faster and further than your competitors.

Having been involved in projects in construction and our work with a range of clients what we see is disturbing. Despite good intentions the observable behaviour is often like the three wise monkey’s…