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End-to-End Supply Chain Optimisation: Effective Strategies for UK Manufacturers in 2025

As UK manufacturers navigate an increasingly unpredictable landscape, effective supply chain strateg...

Optimising Operations: A Guide to Model Area Planning and Deployment

This guide delves into model area deployment, a targeted strategy for driving change within organisa...

The 7-Step Framework for Strategic Cost Management (SCM)

Strategic Cost Management (SCM) is a highly effective analytical method designed to pinpoint, quanti...

Harnessing the Power of Digitisation: A Comprehensive Guide to Shop Floor Management

In today’s competitive manufacturing landscape, the quest for operational excellence and continuous ...

Strategic Cost Management: Unlock Hidden Costs and Drive Sustainable Growth

In today’s volatile global economy, businesses face significant challenges, including inflation, sup...

How Drivers and Dynamics of Organisational Change Can Impact your CI Programme

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”

A Practical Guide to Applying Unified Problem Solving (UPS) in a CI Environment

Essential to the support of every organisation is the efficient and effective application of problem...

9 Practical Actions to Minimise Resistance to Change in Your CI Programme

We live in the era of delayering, limited resources, deregulation, technological advancements, globa...

6 Key Benefits of Implementing a Continuous Improvement (CI) Programme in Your Business

An organisation is only as effective as the people and the processes driving it forward. More so tha...

Radically Improving Your Performance Within a Continuous Improvement Environment: 7-Step Process

The principal drivers of any business are customer satisfaction and profitability. Whilst you may ha...

How to Design a World Class CI Programme to Transform Performance

In our previous article, we discussed the 4 key components of a successful CI programme: leadership,...

The 4 Key Components of a Successful Continuous Improvement (CI) Programme

A continuous improvement (CI) programme can be thought of as a complex machine, governed by many lev...