In the digital age, market trends and customer needs change quickly, this means businesses need to be agile and responsive. Businesses which enable employees entrepreneurial spirit, empowering people to come forward to innovate and transform are effectively using the collective of all the employees brains rather than those just in Leadership and results show they
One positive from lockdown is that I’ve re-established a regular routine morning walk or run. Being a data geek, I can’t help but review my smart watch, tracking my distance and pace and managing my overall performance. Yes, this detracts a little from the mindful experience… but I like to see what I have achieved
Exciting times last week as I landed myself a prized hair appointment! It also gave me a chance to consider what we now face as the ‘new normal’, how we’ve been forced to adapt, have already made some big changes and what lessons we can learn. It was a strange new world in the salon
The worldwide COVID pandemic has resulted in a large scale shift in strategy in how organisations produce, sell or deliver their products and services. These changes in strategy will need to be supported by large scale transformational change in the operating model to be successful. A Target Operating Model (TOM) Programme is most likely to
When change is forced upon us, especially when it’s change we’ve wanted but not believed was possible then we are naturally sceptical, possibly even defensive. But recent times have pushed organisations into transforming quickly and whilst under pressure. Now the dust is settling, what can we learn from our recent forced experiment? Think back: New Year 2020
I was talking to some associate consultant colleagues this week about planning to return to the office post COVID-19. We were discussing the benefits we have all found in working remotely in terms of productivity, the ability to focus and get the most out of the working day. We also recognised that the biggest loss
I was in conversation with a couple of people in my network recently about whether 6 Sigma was appropriate in any environment other than manufacturing or logistics. I heard someone say that they worked for a national retailer and Lean 6 Sigma – particularly 5S – was being heavily used in the warehousing and distribution
