Lean for universities and colleges in Ghana

Time for a blog – it’s been a while. These days, I seem to average one blog every three months or so. Why is this? There’s enough noise out there without me adding to it unless I have something I really want to share. And now, I do have something important to...

New website!

Yes, welcome to our new website. All in the name of Continuous Improvement of course. As you will see, it’s the same URL, with slightly different content. The biggest change is we have removed our recorded online courses. “Why so?” I hear you ask. Well, to cut a long...

ISO 18404: Lean certification … adopt or not?

I see ISO 18404 still makes the news. Hot off the press is an article in The TQM Journal by, among others, Professor Jiju Anthony, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, the article, “The misplacement of ISO18404:2015 in organisational improvement: a...

What are those Lean books behind you?

I was Zoom’ing with a friend from the world of Lean recently and at one point in our conversation I could see he was looking behind me, peering at my bookshelf, the one full of Lean books. I should say here I usually have a very realistic fake brick wall backdrop...

Which process do I improve?

Yes, What now? Imagine you have several processes with problems, and you can only improve one at a time. Which process do you improve? How do you quickly make your choice, to get moving, without calling in expensive analysis resource or completing a complex...

Strike with Lean!

I am in full support of the current round of teacher strikes. As a primary school teacher and educational leader of over 20 years expererince, it is no surprise to me at all that The Guardian recently ran an article stating that a third of England’s teachers who...

Waste in the workplace

What is meant by ‘waste’ in the workplace? No, not the type of waste that ends up in the bins in this image. I’m talking here about any step or activity in a process that consumes resources but adds no value from the perspective of those involved in the process,...