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Making MRP Work: Presentation Slides

New slideshow uploaded to Slideshare. Hopefully it will give you some ideas if you are developing your own plan to get your MRP system working properly. Giles Johnston ...optimising MRP systems and re-engineering business processes

Watch Out For The Little Things!

I was tied up in a conversation the other day about how I was too focussed on the 'little' things when we should be focused on the 'big' things. The conversation was going back and forward until I wrote this on their whiteboard in their office:

'Winning Ugly' - the real art of continuous improvement?

I see a lot of frustration in businesses when it comes to implementing continuous improvement projects. I see it so much that it reminds me of a phrase I heard from a performance psychologist called  Dr John Eliot . He was talking about the frustrations of performances not turning out exactly as planned and talked about the ability to 'win ugly'.

Show Me The Data

I was giving a potted history of my working life to an undergraduate Engineer yesterday. After a few minutes I noticed the haunting theme that was running through my stories, about the need for good data to make informed decisions .

Do You Need Clearer Project Actions?

Something that I have observed (consciously at least) over the past few months is the correlation between clear project actions (such as on meeting minutes) and the rate of actions being closed out. How many times have you read the notes from a meeting and wondered what on Earth the tasks really are? I'd bet that a lot of people feel the same way.