This is a question I often pose to my clients. Many businesses will organise their standardised daily meetings   around a slot in their diary that suits the people attending, but not necessarily the business.

Do you find that the workloads in your business are becoming more volatile? Do you find that what your business was used to doing on a regular basis and what it does now aren't the same? Many businesses are finding themselves with a lot more variety on their order books, especially in terms of how quickly customers want / expect things and the mix of the orders. So, how can you handle this?

Do you find that your continuous improvement projects are progressing as quickly as you would hope? If you're not, it might be worth considering what time of day you undertake your improvement activity.

We all know that if you change a business process you should change the procedures to match, don't we? When we are being formal about the change this is easy to do. When we are trying out new ideas this can lead to inconsistencies in how we update our formal procedures, unless we are prepared to handle this situation.

We're faced with choices every day, and many of those are related to the improvement of our how our business operates. With each choice we hopefully are able to choose from a range of options, not just the choice of do nothing versus one alternative, During the last week I have seen two different situations where the right choice was being avoided because it didn't seem to be viable at that point in time.

I have just added my various process improvement kits to the Making It Happen  toolkit as part of the normal membership package.

When we re-design our processes it can be easy to get carried away. New ideas, new changes and new opportunities are all around. How do you keep your enthusiasm under control, just long enough, so that you end up with a really good new process design?