Does your business measure up? How to measure your potential to succeed.

What are you currently measuring in your business and what do your measures tell you?

·         Are you measuring compliance or success?

·         What is Business as Usual?

·         Do you know what ‘good’ looks like?

·         Where do I need to improve?

Part 4 of my Guide to Continual Improvement tackles the area of how to measure your potential to improve.

The link will take you to The Value to Measuring Continual Improvement across your Whole Organisation a brief look at how you can measure your potential for improvement (you may need to open in google Chrome to access):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SbEtX1W8rGZEllbnNZQUJ6czQ/view?usp=sharing

As always these blogs are here to pass on my experience and to stimulate debate. Please feel free to comment and contact me if you would like further information.

The 11 Keystones to Improvement

Does your business have the skills, leadership & vision to drive Continuous Improvement?

In my first two blogs we looked at what Continuous Improvement actually means and the guiding principles behind it. Part 3 introduces the areas of any business that are key to improving quality, output and performance. I call these The 11 Keystones to Improvement:

1.    Leadership

2.    Strategy

3.    Empowered Teams

4.    Skills

5.    Standardisation

6.    Workplace Organisation & Visual Management

7.    Planning & Resources

8.    Inventory & On Time Delivery

9.    Built in Quality

10.  Innovation

11.  Delivery of Value

The link will take you to an explanation of the Keystones and the importance you should place upon them if starting a CI drive in your business. (you may need to open in google Chrome to access):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SbEtX1W8rGdVVheDluUGREdzg/view?usp=sharing

If you think Continual Improvement is something your company has already done then you've actually never done it

Part 2 of my Continual Improvement Guide introduces the 8 Principles of Continual Improvement. Understanding and embedding these principles into your contract or organisation should be the starting point for any CI drive you’re considering.

This link will take you to an explanation of the principles (you may need to open in google Chrome to access):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SbEtX1W8rGdlZSV2d3aVZYX1k/view?usp=sharing