Q&A: Centralised versus Decentralised?

When working on Business Improvement Deployments with larger clients we are almost always asked “Should our Business Improvement team have a centralised or a decentralised structure?” The answer is “it depends”. First lets take a look at what we mean by the two...

4 Principles to help you to increase Process Flow; resulting in reduced cycle times, increased productivity and reducing costs

We’ve been involved in many improvement projects which generally can be categorised into the following objectives: Increasing throughput Reducing cycle times Increasing productivity (doing more with less) Increasing availability (outside of this article)...